platan

See also: plàtan and platån

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin platanus; later reborrowed from Middle French platane.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈplat(ə)n/

Noun

platan (plural platans)

  1. (now rare, literary) A planetree.
    • 1633, John Donne, "The Autumnall":
      Xerxes strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, / Was lov'd for age, none being so large as shee [...].
    • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
      A double hill ran up his furrowy forks / Beyond the thick-leaved platans of the vale.

Anagrams


Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • platanu

Etymology

From Greek πλάτανος (plátanos). Compare the doublet paltin. Cf. also Romanian platan.

Noun

platan m (plural platanj)

  1. plane tree

Synonyms


Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Platane from Latin platanus from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /platan/

Noun

platan m

  1. plane tree, any tree of genus Platanus

Declension

References

  1. platan in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007

Esperanto

Adjective

platan

  1. accusative singular of plata

Icelandic

Noun

platan

  1. definite nominative singular of plata

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).

Noun

platan m (definite singular platanen, indefinite plural plataner, definite plural platanene)

  1. a plane (tree), plane tree (genus Platanus)

Derived terms

  • platanlønn

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).

Noun

platan m (definite singular platanen, indefinite plural platanar, definite plural platanane)

  1. a plane (tree), plane tree (genus Platanus)

Derived terms

  • platanløn, platanlønn

References


Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpla.tan/

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).

Noun

platan m inan

  1. plane tree, any tree of genus Platanus
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

platan f

  1. genitive plural of platana

Further reading

  • platan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek πλάτανος (plátanos), partially through the French intermediate platane. See also paltin, inherited through a Vulgar Latin intermediate.

Noun

platan m (plural platani)

  1. plane tree
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