plats

See also: plåts

English

Noun

plats

  1. plural of plat

Verb

plats

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plat

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Catalan

Noun

plats

  1. plural of plat

Estonian

Noun

plats (genitive platsi, partitive platsi)

  1. square (of a city)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.


French

Adjective

plats

  1. masculine plural of plat

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *platu-s, from *pl̥th₂us < *pleth₂os, adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *pel- (to spread; broad, wide). In Latvian, former u-stem adjectives were assimilated into other classes; *platus gave rise to both an o-stem and a yo-stem variant which later on became independent words, plats and plašs, with different semantic nuances (compare also dobs and dobjš, or ass and ašs); this separation began in the 18th century but became complete only in the 1870s. Cognates include Lithuanian platùs, Old Prussian plat- (from a placename, Platmedyen, where median = “forest”), Sanskrit पृथु (pṛthu, broad, wide, great, powerful), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, broad, wide, flat, smooth)[1].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [plats]

Adjective

plats (platais comparative, platāks superlative, visplatākais adverb, plati)

  1. wide, broad (having a relatively large distance from side to side)
    plats dēlis, solswide board, bench
    platas durviswide door
    plata šosejawide road
    plats smaidswide smile
    vīrietis ar platiem pleciema man with broad shoulders
    putns ar platu knābia bird with a wide beak
    koki ar platām lapāma tree with broad leaves
    vienu metru plats audumsone-meter wide fabric, cloth
    desmit metru plata upea 10-meter wide river
  2. wide, broad (going beyond the average width of other similar objects)
    plats kreklswide shirt
    blūze ir par platuthe blouse is too wide
  3. (phonetics) broad, lax (pronounced with relatively large mouth opening)
    platais patskanisbroad, lax vowel
    platais e, ēbroad, lax e, ē (i.e., [æ] instead of [ɛ])
  4. wide, broad (having large aperture)
    pavērt vārtus platākto open the gate wider
    plati atvērt mutito open the door wide
  5. wide, broad (having large diameter)
    plata caurulewide tube
    ieliet dzērienu platā traukāto pour the drink into a wide container
    sakārtot ziedus platā vāzeto put the flowers into a wide vase

Usage notes

In general, plats is used to mean “wide, broad” in a more literal sense, while plašs has more metaphorical senses.

Declension

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • platība
  • platums

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), plats”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Old French

Noun

plats m

  1. inflection of plat:
    1. oblique plural
    2. nominative singular

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish platz, from Old Norse plaz.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

plats c

  1. place; any geographical position a little larger than just a point, such as a village, city or just a "nowhere"
  2. a seat; such as in a bus or in a theater
    Ursäkta, är den här platsen upptagen?
    Excuse me, but is this seat occupied?
  3. (uncountable) room; space
    Hur mycket plats behövs på hårddisken?
    How much space is needed on the hard drive?
    För att lägga ett stort pussel behövs mycket plats
    To lay a large jigsaw puzzle, you need a lot of space
  4. a position; such as allowing you to play in a (competing) sports team, or take a university course
    Den kurs jag helst ville gå hade bara tio platser
    The course I'd preferred only allowed ten students

Declension

Declension of plats 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative plats platsen platser platserna
Genitive plats platsens platsers platsernas

See also

  • platsa
  • på plats
  • ta en plats
  • sätta någon på plats
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