plat

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /plæt/
• Rhymes: -æt
• Homophone: plait

From Middle English plat, platte (“flat part of a sword; flat piece of ground, plot of ground”),[1] probably a variant of Middle English plot,[2] (modern English plot)[3] and influenced by Middle English plā̆t, plā̆te[4] (modern English plate) and Anglo-Norman, Middle French and Old French plat.[5]

The verb is derived from the noun.[6]

plat (plural plats)

1. A plot of land; a lot.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition 2, section 2, member 3:

     The best soil commonly yields the worst air, a dry sandy plat is fittest to build upon, and such as is rather hilly than plain […].

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve.

   • 1833, Alfred Tennyson, The Blackbird:

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

   • 1914, The Maine Catholic Historical Magazine, volume 2, page 22:

     […] 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.

2. A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
   • 1580, Richard Hakluyt, Notes given to Arthur Pet and Charles Jackman:

     For which cause I wish you to note all the islands, and to set them down in [a] plat.

   • 1888, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Indiana:

     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.

   • 2002, Real Estate Principles →ISBN, page 75:

     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.

   • 2005, Aharon Varady, Bond Hill: Origin and Transformation of a 19th Century Cincinnati Metro-Suburb →ISBN, page 76:

     In 1877, a formal plat of the unincorporated village was published (see figure 34).

3. (obsolete) A plot, a scheme.
   • 1582 July 9, letter from Robert Bowes to Francis Walsingham, The Correspondence of Robert Bowes (1842):

     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, […]

   • 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie:

     So shall our plat in this one point be larger and much surmount that which Stanlhurst first tooke in hand.

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

1. (transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.
   • 1902 June 19, Ellen Dawson et al. vs. Robert Broome, reported in Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, volume 24 (1903), page 371

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

   • 1888, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Indiana:

     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.

   • 1913 January 6, Tesson v. H. K. Porter Co. (Supreme Court of Pennsylvania), reported in The Atlantic Reporter, volume 86, page 278:

     […] 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.

   • 2004, Alan A Lew, ‎Carolyn Cartier, Seductions of Place

     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.

The noun is a variant of plait.[7]

The verb is from Middle English platte, English plat, respectively archaic past and past participle forms of English pleat[8] (a variant of plait),[9] Middle English platten (“to braid, weave; plait; to fold”).[10]

plat (plural plats)

1. A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover’s Complaint:

     Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat, / Proclaimed in her a careless hand of pride.

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

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

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

     […] 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.

2. Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
   • 1824, New Material for Straw Plat, in The New England Farmer, volume 2, page 316:

     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.

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

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

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

     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.

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

1. (dated except regional England) To braid, to plait.
   • Matthew 27.29 (KJV):

     And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head.

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

     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 […]

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

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

From Middle English plat, plate, platte (“flat; smooth; blunt, plain”),[11] 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.[12]

plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)

1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
   • c. 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, book 1:

     He leyeth downe his one care all plat / Unto the grounde, […]

   • 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.

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

     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.

   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:

     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.

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

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

plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)

1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flatly, plainly.

   Synonyms: bluntly, directly, straightforwardly

   • c. 1360, Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose:

     But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat.

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

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

   • c. 1584‒1656, Joseph Hall:

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

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• plat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈplat/

plat m (plural plats)

1. plate
2. dish

• plata

• IPA^(key): /plat/
• Rhymes: -at

From platit (“to pay”) derived from Proto-Slavic *platъ (“a piece of cloth”),[1] as pieces of cloth were used as currency. Possibly cognate with plátno (“canvas, linen”).

plat m

1. salary

   nástupní plat — starting salary

   základní plat — basic salary

• mzda
• gáže
• výplata

• platový

plat

1. genitive plural of plato

• plat in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• plat in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

plat

1. inane, lacking inspiration, corny, insipid
   • 2016, Anne Strandvad, Vejen til Sofie, Lindhardt og Ringhof →ISBN

     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.

     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.

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

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

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

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

     Enhver var af den opfattelse, Ladegaards morsomheder var platte.

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

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

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

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

   • 1986, Eske Holm, Den erotiske handel: roman

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

     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.

• IPA^(key): /plɑt/

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• Rhymes: -ɑt

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

plat (comparative platter, superlative platst)

1. flat

   De wereld is plat.

   The world is flat.

2. of soft consistency

   platte kaas

   soft cheese (quark, creamy cheese)

   platte kak

   soft stool

• platbranden
• plattegrond

• Afrikaans: plat
• → Sranan Tongo: plata

From Platduits, which originally referred to any dialect specific to the low countries.

plat n (uncountable)

1. One’s local dialect.

   Kan jij plat praten?

   Can you speak the dialect?

plat (comparative platter, superlative platst)

1. as one’s local dialect

   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.

2. (by extension) common, rural, vulgar

   een platte mop

• platte uitdrukking

• lapt

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

• IPA^(key): /pla/

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

1. flat

• plateau
• à plat
• platitude

• → Romanian: plat

plat m (plural plats)

1. a flat area of ground; a flat thing; a flat dish or receptacle
2. dish or course (e.g. served in a restaurant)

• mets

• plat du jour

• “plat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

plat

1. Romanization of 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄

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

1. a footbridge

From French plat.

• IPA^(key): [plat]

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

1. flat, level, even

plat n (plural [please provide])

1. The high first tone in Hanyu pinyin

• tonul plat

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɫat/

plat m (genitive singular platu, nominative plural platy, genitive plural platov, declension pattern of dub)

1. salary

• mzda

• platík m
• platovo adv
• platový -á -é

• platiť
• výplata

• plat in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk