plat

Substantivization of the archaic adjective plat (“flat”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús). Compare French plat.


plat

a block of hard, white cheese made from the residue of halloumi

plata (feminine singulative)
platát (plural)


plat

nástupní plat

základní plat

plat (nominative singular)
platy (nominative plural)
platu (genitive singular)
platů (genitive plural)
platu (dative singular)
platům (dative plural)
plat (accusative singular)
platy (accusative plural)
plate (singular vocative)
platy (plural vocative)
platu (locative singular)
platech (locative plural)
platem (instrumental singular)
platy (instrumental plural)

From platit (“to pay”) derived from Proto-Slavic *platъ (“a piece of cloth”), as pieces of cloth were used as currency. Possibly cognate with plátno (“canvas, linen”).


plat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


plat

De ting, hun lavede, var platte og måtte klemmes ud af pligt. Først når de andre spillede dem, blev de til andet end livløse slag på klaveret.

2016, Anne Strandvad, Vejen til Sofie, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

The things she made were uninspired and had to be squeezed out by duty. It was only when others played them that they became anything else than lifeless beatings on the piano.

Jeg fandt, at især de sidste fire linjer i visen var platte og stødende.

2006, Min krønike: 1932-1979, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 150:

I found that, in particular, the last four lines in the song were inane and offensive.

Enhver var af den opfattelse, Ladegaards morsomheder var platte.

2016, Jørgen Thorgaard, Kolonien, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

Everyone was of the view that Ladegaard's jokes were corny.

... at de syntes Carolines bemærkninger var platte, ...

2011, Irene Oestrich, Slip bekymringerne, Politikens Forlag, →ISBN:

... that they felt Caroline's remarks to be stupid, ...

Mænds fascination af Martin berørte ham meget lidt. Han syntes dog bøsserne var besværlige – han syntes, de oftest var platte og seksuelt fikserede.

1986, Eske Holm, Den erotiske handel: roman:

The fascination that men held for Martin affected him very little. He did however feel that the gays were troublesome – he felt that they were most often insipid and sexually fixated.

inane, lacking inspiration, corny, insipid

head

plat (plural and definite singular attributive platte)

platte (attributive definite singular)
platte (attributive plural)
plat (positive)
plattere (comparative)
plattest (superlative)
platte (plural positive)
plattere (comparative plural)
plattest (plural superlative)
platte (positive)
platteste (superlative)

Borrowed via Middle Low German platt from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, which probably is loan from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), a cognate of Danish flad.


plat

De wereld is niet plat.

platte kaas

platte kak

nl-adj

plat (comparative platter, superlative platst)

platter (comparative)
platst (superlative)
plat (adverbial positive predicative)
platter (adverbial comparative predicative)
het platst (adverbial predicative superlative)
het platste (adverbial predicative superlative)
platte (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
plattere (comparative feminine indefinite masculine singular)
platste (feminine indefinite masculine singular superlative)
plat (indefinite neuter positive singular)
platter (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
platste (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
platte (indefinite plural positive)
plattere (comparative indefinite plural)
platste (indefinite plural superlative)
platte (definite positive)
plattere (comparative definite)
platste (definite superlative)
plats (partitive positive)
platters (comparative partitive)

Afrikaans: plat

Berbice Creole Dutch: plati

→ Papiamentu: plat

→ Sranan Tongo: plata (see there for further descendants)

From Middle Dutch plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus.


plat

Kan jij plat praten?

2015, Frans Kellendonk. Verzamelt werk. 2nd ed. (as e-book; original 1st ed. printed 2015), Querido, 2015 (→ISBN; preview at Google Books)

The language is a Bordewijkian artificial language, the figures are not recognisable people, the dialect that they speak is a synthetic dialect. [Note: Bordewijk is a Netherlandic surename.]

De taal is een Bordewijkse kunsttaal, de figuren zijn geen herkenbare mensen, het plat dat ze spreken is een synthetisch plat.

(uncountable) dialect; one’s local dialect

a flat surface; particularly a (roof) terrace

nl-noun

plat n (plural platten, diminutive platje n)

platten (plural)
platje (diminutive neuter)

From Platduits. Cognate to German Platt n (“dialect”).


plat

In de realityserie Oh Oh Cherso spraken de deelnemers plat Haags.

The participants in the reality show Oh Oh Cherso spoke dialectal Dutch from The Hague.

een platte mop

platter (comparative)
platst (superlative)

→ Indonesian: pèlat

→ Malay: pélat


plat

The best ſoyle commonly yeelds the worſt Ayre, a dry ſandy plat is fitteſt to build upon, and ſuch as is rather hilly then plaine, full of Downes, a Cotſwald county, as being moſt commodious for hawking, hunting, wood, waters, and all manner of pleaſures.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Ayre Rectified. With a Digression of the Ayre.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 220:

Such pleaſure took the Serpent to behold
 This Flourie Plat, the ſweet receſs of Eve
 Thus earlie, thus alone; [...]

1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 455–457:

O Blackbird! sing me something well: / While all the neighbours shoot thee round, / I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, / Where thou may’st warble, eat, and dwell.

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Blackbird”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 208:

[W]e come to a spot which must have been a favorite resting-place for the poet, a low stone seat under a huge live oak, with a formal plat of grass and a stone seat opposite.

1913 April, Lela Angier Lenfest, “The Garden of ‘The Rosary’”, in Sunset: The Pacific Monthly, volume 30, number 4, San Francisco, Calif.: H. S. Crocker, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 353:

For which cauſe I wiſh you to enter into conſideration of the matter, & to note all the Iſlands, and to ſet them downe in plat, to two ends: that is to ſay, That we may deuiſe to take the benefit by them, And alſo foreſee how by them the Sauages or ciuill Princes may in any ſort annoy us in our purpoſed trade that way.

1580, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], published 1589, →OCLC, page 460:

A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.

1888, John W[orth] Kern, official reporter, “The City of Indianapolis v. Patterson”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, […], volume 112, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bowen-Merrill Co., law publishers, →OCLC, headnote:

The purpose of the preapplication conference is to allow the developer to meet informally with the planning board before going to the expense of preparing a formal plat.

1982, Robert N[eil] Corley, Peter J. Shedd, Charles F. Floyd, Real Estate and the Law, New York, N.Y.: Business Division, Random House, →ISBN, page 174; Charles F. Floyd, Marcus T. Allen, “Public Restrictions on Ownership”, in Real Estate Principles, 7th edition, Chicago, Ill.: Dearborn Real Estate Education, Dearborn Financial Publishing, 2002, →ISBN, page 75:

In 1877, a formal plat of the unincorporated village was published [...]. The publication of the plat, seven years after the village was laid out, likely reflected the beginning of the process toward formal incorporation of the municipality.

2005 November 23, Aharon N. Varady, “Bond Hill, Ohio, 1870–1903”, in Bond Hill: Origin and Transformation of a 19th Century Cincinnati Metro-Suburb, 10th edition, Cincinnati, Oh.: Henry Watkin Press & Cosmographic Design Initiates, →ISBN, page 76:

A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.

Besides some care is taken, so far as conveniently can be, both to give regard to the further spring of any matter tending to the entry or execution of any other or evil plat, and also upon the sight thereof, to have timely recourse to the King, to warn him and others to beware and provide for the seasonable prevention of the danger; [...]

1582 July 9, Robert Bowes, “CCXXV.—‘To Sir Francis Walsingham, ix July 1583.’ From the Letter-Book, p. 223.”, in [Joseph] Stevenson, editor, The Correspondence of Robert Bowes, of Aske, Esquire, the Ambassador of Queen Elizabeth in the Court of Scotland (The Publications of the Surtees Society), London: J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Son, […]; William Pickering, […]; Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, published 1842, →OCLC, page 488:

[S]o shall our plat in this one point be larger and much surmount that which [Richard] Stanihurst first tooke in hand by his exameters dactilicke and spondaicke in the translation of Virgills Eneidos, [...]

1589, George Puttenham, chapter XII, in The Arte of English Poesie: […], London: Printed by Richard Field, […], →OCLC; republished as Jos[eph] Haslewood, editor, The Arte of English Poesie, London: Printed by Harding and Wright, […], for Robert Triphook, […], 1811, →OCLC, book II (Of Proportion Poetical), page 90:

скица

The noun is derived from Middle English plat, platte (“flat part of a sword; flat piece of ground, plot of ground”), probably a variant of Middle English plot, (modern English plot) and influenced by Middle English plat, plate (modern English plate) and Anglo-Norman, Middle French and Old French plat. See platy-, plaice, flat.
The verb is derived from the noun.


plat

He platted his land, extending the lateral lines of the lots south of Shore, or India street, indefinitely out into the river.

1902 June 19, Justice Horatio Rogers Jr., Edward C. Stiness, reporter, “Ellen Dawson et al. vs. Robert Broome”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, volume 24, Providence, R.I.: E. L. Freeman & Sons, printers to the state, published 1903, →OCLC, page 371:

[...] it may vacate a street where the original Owner has merely platted his land to conform to streets already located and established by the municipality, where no lot has been sold by such owner prior to such vacation.

1913 January 6, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, “Tesson v. H. K. Porter Co.”, in The Atlantic Reporter (National Reporter System, State Series), permanent edition, volume 86, St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 278:

Vistas in San Francisco—a city whose real estate development platted out land geometrically and gridded over a series of hills—offer vertical, stunning viewscapes of architecture and the Bay, natural and built environments.

2005, Carolyn Cartier, “San Francisco and the Left Coast”, in Carolyn Cartier, Alan A. Lew, editors, Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes (Critical Geographies; 19), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 138:

(transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.

en-verb

plat (third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)

plats (present singular third-person)
platting (participle present)
platted (participle past)
platted (past)


plat

Her haire nor looſe nor ti'd in formall plat, / Proclaimd in her a careleſſe hand of pride; [...]

1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

they also wear a cap or cup on the head formed of beargrass and cedar bark. the men also frequently attatch some small ornament to a small plat of hair on the center of the crown of their heads.

c. 1806, record in the journals of Lewis and Clark, recorded in The United States Exploration Anthology (2013)

[…] hair ornamented with a bandeau of gold on one side of the forehead, with a large pearl in the centre of the bandeau; on the opposite side is a plat of hair.

1830, The Ladies’ Museum, volume 31, page 59:

A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).

The large silver medal and twenty guineas, were this Session given to Miss Sophia Woodhouse, (Mrs. Wells,) of Weathersfield, in Connecticut, United States, for a new Material for Straw Plat.

1824, “New Material for Straw Plat”, in The New England Farmer, volume 2, page 316:

Her Ladyship, in a letter to A. Aikin, Esq., […] dated Castle Bernard, Ireland, Oct. 19, 1827, states that she has made some improvement in the mode of preparing the rye-straw, which is the material for plat employed in the school under her ladyship’s patronage.

1829, “On British Leghorn Plat for Hats and Bonnets, by Lady Harriet Bernard”, in Gill’s Technological Repository, volume 4, page 381:

Mr. Corston states that 781,605 straw hats had been imported from 1794 to 1803; and that in the last four years of that period 5281 lbs. of straw-plat, which was equal to 26,405 hats, had also been brought to this country.

1842, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 23:

Eleuthera made palmetto plat for hats, arrowroot, and casaba starch.

2000, Whittington Bernard Johnson, Race Relations in the Bahamas, 1784–1834:

The most detailed example of this particular mode of production occurs in the section of Cottage Economy devoted to the making of straw plat for hats, fashioned from raw material grown in England.

2002, John McAllister Ulrich, Signs of Their Times, →ISBN, page 45:

Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.

en-noun

plat (countable and uncountable, plural plats)

The noun is a variant of plait.
The verb is from Middle English platte, English plat, respectively archaic past and past participle forms of English pleat (a variant of plait), Middle English platten (“to braid, weave; plait; to fold”).


plat

And when they had platted a crowne of thornes, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, ſaying, haile king of the Jewes.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 27:29:

A customer hailed him; he placed the stool on the ground, and the customer seated himself upon it, while the barber shaved his face, platted his hair, and washed his hands [...]

1844, Thomas Jefferson Jacobs, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean, page 349:

She platted her hair in segments the night before, so that today she’d have a rippling effect through her hair.

2006, Elka Paquette, Taboo, →ISBN, page 100:

She carried in her hand a broad belt of wampum, and a white honeycomb from the hollow oak, and on her way she stopped and platted a garland of the gayest flowers of the season.

1828, William Cullen Bryant, “The Cascade of Melsingah”, in The Talisman, volume 1, New York, page 206:

(dated except regional England) To braid, to plait.


plat

But else, hold alway^([sic]) your tail fast between your legs that he catch you not thereby; and hold down your ears lying plat after your head that he hold you not thereby; and see wisely to yourself.

1889, Henry Morley, Early Prose Romances: The history of Reynard the Fox, page 149:

But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me. Let things be plat and plain between us. I am a man who shoots straight at his mark.

1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:

The whirling wheel and speedy swift axle-tree / Smat down to ground, and on the earth lay plat.

2011, Gordon Kendall, MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, volume 7.II: Gavin Douglas, The Aenid (1513) →ISBN, page 638

(obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.

en-adj

plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)

more plat (comparative)
most plat (superlative)

From Middle English plat, plate, platte (“flat; smooth; blunt, plain”), from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French plat (“(adjective) flat, level; calm; blunt, plain; (adverb) in a flat position; directly, straight; bluntly, plainly”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flat; smooth”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat; wide”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”).
The English word is cognate with French plat, Italian piatto, Middle Dutch plat (modern Dutch plat (“flat”)), Middle High German blat, plat, Middle Low German plat (modern German platt (“flat”)), Old Danish plat (modern Danish plat), Old Occitan plat (modern Occitan plat), Old Swedish plat (modern Swedish platt); and is a doublet of flat and pleyt.


plat

Fourth, see [that] thou hide nothing, nor dissemble, but speak plat, and plainly as much as thou knowest.

c. 1547‒1555, John Hooper, A Declaration of the Ten Commandments, published by the Parker Society in 1843

But single out, and say once plat and plain / That coy Matrona is a courtesan;

(obsolete except Scotland) Flatly, plainly.


plat

(video games, slang) Clipping of platform game.


plat

fr-adj

plat (feminine plate, masculine plural plats, feminine plural plates)

plate (feminine)
plats (masculine plural)
plates (feminine plural)

→ Romanian: plat

Inherited from Middle French plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”).


plat

a flat area of ground; a flat thing; a flat dish or receptacle

Ce plat de champignons a changé la destinée de l’Europe.

This mushroom dish has changed the destiny of Europe.

dish or course (e.g. served in a restaurant)

la vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid


plat

𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄#Gothic


plat

He lith down his one ere al plat / Unto the grounde and halt it faſte [...]

c. 1386–1390, John Gower, “Book I”, in Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume I, London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 57:

c. 1400, John Lydgate, poem, commented upon by Thomas Gray and printed in The Works of Thomas Gray, volume 5, page 305

But, crying mercy, the emperour lay plat on the ground.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)

plat: flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.


plat

But, ſir, ye lye, I tel you plat [...]

c. 1360s (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC, folio clxv, verso, column 1:

But, sir, you lie, I tell you plainly […]


plat

head

plat m (feminine singular plate, masculine plural plats, feminine plural plates)

plate (feminine singular)
plats (masculine plural)
plates (feminine plural)

French: plat
→ Romanian: plat

From Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from *pleth₂- + *-us.


plat

head

plat m (oblique and nominative feminine singular plate)

plate (feminine nominative oblique singular)

desctree

Middle French: plat
French: plat
→ Romanian: plat

Norman: pliat (Jersey)

→ Middle Dutch: plat

Dutch: plat (see there for further descendants)

Limburgish: plat

→ Middle English: plat

English: plat

Scots: plat

→ Middle High German: blat (see there for further descendants)

→ Middle Low German: plat

→ Danish: plat

→ Swedish: platt

From Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”).


plat

fro-noun

plat oblique singular, m (oblique plural plaz or platz, nominative singular plaz or platz, nominative plural plat)

plat oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
plaz (oblique plural)
platz (oblique plural)
plaz (nominative singular)
platz (nominative singular)
plat (nominative plural)


plat

ro-adj

plat m or n (feminine singular plată, masculine plural plați, feminine and neuter plural plate)

plată (feminine singular)
plați (masculine plural)
plate (feminine neuter plural)
plat (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
plată (feminine indefinite singular)
plați (indefinite masculine plural)
plate (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
platul (definite masculine neuter singular)
plata (definite feminine singular)
plații (definite masculine plural)
platele (definite feminine neuter plural)
plate (feminine indefinite singular)
platului (definite masculine neuter singular)
platei (definite feminine singular)
plaților (definite masculine plural)
platelor (definite feminine neuter plural)


plat

level tone, first tone (in Hanyu pinyin)


plat

sk-noun

plat m inan (relational adjective platový, diminutive platík, augmentative platisko)

platový (adjective relational)
platík (diminutive)
platisko (augmentative)
singular
plural
nominative
plat
platy
genitive
platu
platov
dative
platom
accusative
locative
plate
platoch
instrumental
platmi