platt

From Early Modern English platte, a variation (probably dialectal) of plot (“plot of land”); see plat and plot for more.

platt (plural platts)

1. Obsolete spelling of plat or plot (scheme, plan, design, map).
   • 1794 July 30, minutes of the Executive council of Georgia, published in Minutes of the Executive council, from January 14, 1778, to January 6, 1785 (1908), page 684:

     3rdly That it also be recommended to all persons concerned to have their platts passed through the Surveyor Generals Office, and, in all respects, ready for the grant, in case they shall be entitled to the same, by the said 10th of September.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:platt.

From Middle English platten, whence also plait; see plat.

platt (plural platts)

1. Obsolete spelling of plat (material made by interweaving, especially material made by interweaving straw, used to make hats).

   straw platt

   • c. 1750, a record, quoted in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1931):

     The versatility of his craftsmanship is likewise evidenced by the inventory which included "8½ Doz. Walking Sticks & Rodds" and "3½ Doz. Straw Hatts, some platt &c." His name appears in several account books of early Philadelphians, in 1751, […]

From northern Middle High German plat, blat and Middle Low German plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, probably from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús). Compare Dutch plat, French plat, Italian piatto, obsolete English plat. Also related with English flat.

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platt (comparative platter, superlative am plattesten)

1. flat
2. (of a building or structure; by extension also of immaterial things) completely destroyed, razed to the ground
3. bromidic, banal
4. (colloquial) very tired, exhausted
5. (colloquial) astonished, dumbstruck

• flach

• Platt
• Plattfuß
• Platter
• Plattbauchspinne

• platt in Duden online

From Middle Low German plat, a borrowing from Old French plat (whence French plat), from Vulgar Latin *plattus. Cognate with German platt, Dutch plat.

• IPA^(key): /plɑt/

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platt (masculine platten, neuter platt, comparative méi platt, superlative am plattsten)

1. flat

platt m (plural platti)

1. plate (dish)

• plattin

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platt (comparative plattare, superlative plattast)

1. flat

   platt som en pannkaka

   flat as a pancake

• platta
• plattång
• plattfisk
• plattform
• plattfot
• plattpannkaka
• plattysk

• flat
• platå

platt (comparative plattare, superlative plattast)

1. entirely, absolutely, at all

   det är platt intet

   that is absolutely nothing, that is nothing at all

platt c

1. a flat piece of ground

• platt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)