Plato

Via Latin, from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn), from πλατύς (platús, “broad, wide”), either because of Plato's robust body, or wide forehead or the breadth of his eloquence.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪ.təʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪ.toʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

Plato

1. Greek philosopher, 427-347 BC, follower of Socrates.
2. A male given name.
   • 1993 Nina Bawden, The Real Plato Jones, Houghton Miffin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 1:

     My name is Plato Jones. Plato Constantine Jones. Plato because my mother is Greek, and Jones because my father is Welsh, and Constantine after his father, my grandfather, who is Constantine Llewellyn Jones.

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• Platōn

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.toː/, [ˈpɫa.toː]

Platō m (genitive Platōnis); third declension

1. Plato, a Greek philosopher

   Lectitavisse Platonem studiose.

   To have often read Plato zealously.

Third declension.

• English: Plato

• Plato in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Plato in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette