different between dish vs platea

English

Etymology

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English dis? (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, and disk.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?sh, IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

dish (plural dishes)

1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Judges v. 25

     She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

2. The contents of such a vessel.

3. (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
4. (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.

5. (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.

6. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
   • 1993, Westwood Studios, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, Virgin Games:

     Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!

7. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.

8. A hollow place, as in a field.
9. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
10. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
11. (slang) Gossip

Synonyms

• (vessel): plate
• (contents): dishful, plate, plateful
• (sexually attractive person): babe, fox

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: dis

Translations

Verb

dish (third-person singular simple present dishes, present participle dishing, simple past and past participle dished)

2. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
3. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
4. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

5. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

Derived terms

• dish out
• dish up

See also

• plate

Anagrams

• HIDs, HSDI, SHID, shid

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin plat?a, from Ancient Greek ??????? (plateîa, “street”). Doublet of piazza.

Noun

platea f (plural platee)

1. stall a seat in a theatre close to the stage (UK); orchestra seat (of a theater) (US)
2. (by extension) audience

   Synonym: pubblico

Derived terms

• plateale

Anagrams

• palate, pelata

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (plateîa), shortening of ??????? ???? (plateîa hodós, “broad way”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pla?te?.a/, [p??ä?t?e?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pla?te.a/, [pl??t????]

Noun

plat?a f (genitive plat?ae); first declension

1. street
2. courtyard

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: plaça
• Corsican: piazza
• Dalmatian: plaza
• Extremaduran: praça
• Friulian: place
• ? Gothic: ???????????????????????? (plapja)
• Istriot: piassa
• Italian: piazza
  • ? English: piazza
  • ? Romanian: pia??
  • ? Hungarian: piac (via a northern dialect)
• ? Italian: platea
• Mozarabic:

  Arabic: ???????? (platsa)

  Hebrew: ??????? (platsa)

• Neapolitan: chiazza
• ? Old English: plæse plætse, plæ?e
  • Middle English: place (conflated with Old French place)
    • English: place
      • Pijin: ples
      • Tok Pisin: ples
• Old French: place, plache, plaise, plas
  • French: place
    • Haitian Creole: laplas (with definite article la)
      • ? English: laplas
  • ? Irish: plás (through Anglo-Norman)
  • ? Middle Dutch: plaetse
    • Dutch: plaats
    • Limburgish: plaotsj, plaatsj
  • ? Middle High German: blaz, plaz
    • German: Platz
      • ? Czech: plac
      • ? Estonian: plats
      • ? Macedonian: ???? (plac)
      • ? Polish: plac
        • ? Russian: ???? (plac)
      • ? Serbo-Croatian:
        • Cyrillic: ????
        • Latin: plac
    • Luxembourgish: Plaz
  • ? Middle Low German: platse, platze
    • ? Old Norse: plaz
      • Danish: plads
      • Faroese: pláss
      • Norwegian: plass
      • Old Swedish: platz
        • Swedish: plats
      • Westrobothnian: plass
  • ? Middle English: place (conflated with Old English plæse, plætse, plæ?e)
    • English: place
      • Pijin: ples
      • Tok Pisin: ples
  • ? Moroccan Arabic: ?????? (bla?a)
  • Norman: plache (through Old Northern French plache)
  • Walloon: plaece
  • ? Welsh: plas
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: plaça
  • Occitan: plaça
• Old Portuguese: praça, plaça (semi-learned)
  • Galician: praza
  • Portuguese: praça
    • Kabuverdianu: prása
    • ? Tetum: prasa
    • Papiamentu: plasa
• ? Portuguese: plateia
• Romansch: plaz, plaza, plazza
• Sicilian: chiazza
• Spanish: plaza (semi-learned)
  • ? Basque: plaza
  • ? English: plaza
    • ? Thai: ?????? (plaa-sâa)
• ? Spanish: platea

Noun 2

• Alternative of platalea, the (spoonbill)

References

• platea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• platea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• platea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• platea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• platea in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• platea in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin plat?a, from Ancient Greek ??????? (plateîa, “street”). Doublet of plaza.

Noun

platea f (plural plateas)

1. stalls (of a theatre)