different between plane vs plana

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ple?n/, [p?l?e?n]
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophone: plain

Etymology 1

From Latin pl?num (“flat surface”), a noun use of the neuter of pl?nus (“plain”). The word was introduced in the 17th century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain. Doublet of llano, piano, and plain.

Adjective

plane (comparative planer, superlative planest)

1. Of a surface: flat or level.

Translations

Noun

plane (plural planes)

1. A level or flat surface.
2. (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
   1. (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
3. A level of existence or development.

4. A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc. (Compare wing, airfoil, hydrofoil.)
5. (computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): real plane, complex plane
• (anatomy): coronal plane, frontal plane, sagittal plane, transverse plane
• (control surface): diving plane
• (Unicode): BMP, PUP, SIP, SMP, SPUA, SSP, supplementary plane, TIP

Derived terms

Related terms

• plain
• planar
• planate

Descendants

• ? Irish: plána

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English plane, plaine, from Anglo-Norman plaine, from Late Latin pl?na (“planing tool”).

Noun

plane (plural planes)

1. (countable) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

Translations

See also

• rhykenologist

Verb

plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)

1. (transitive) To smooth (wood) with a plane.

Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of aeroplane.

Noun

plane (plural planes)

1. An airplane; an aeroplane.
2. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.

   Synonym: aeroplane

3. (entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

plane (third-person singular simple present planes, present participle planing, simple past and past participle planed)

1. (nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
2. To glide or soar.

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English plane, borrowed from Old French plane, from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (plátanos), from ?????? (platús, “wide, broad”).

Noun

plane (plural planes)

2. (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
3. (Northern UK) A sycamore.

Derived terms

• oriental plane

Translations

Further reading

• Plane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Alpen, Nepal, Palen, palen, panel, penal, plena

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plan/
• Homophone: planes

Adjective

plane

1. feminine singular of plan

Verb

plane

1. first-person singular present indicative of planer
2. third-person singular present indicative of planer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of planer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of planer
5. second-person singular imperative of planer

Anagrams

• Népal, pénal

German

Pronunciation

Verb

plane

1. inflection of planen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

From pl?nus (“intelligible, clear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pla?.ne?/, [?p??ä?ne?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pla.ne/, [?pl??n?]

Adverb

pl?n? (comparative pl?nius, superlative pl?nissim?)

1. plainly (to the senses or understanding), distinctly, intelligibly
2. (emphasising correctness) clearly, obviously
   1. (also used as an affirmative answer)
3. wholly, utterly, thoroughly, quite

Related terms

• pl?nus

Descendants

• Hungarian: pláne

References

• “pl?n?” on page 1526 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• plane in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plane in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• plane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Anagrams

• pl?n?, pl?na

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

plane

1. definite singular of plan
2. plural of plan

Portuguese

Verb

plane

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of planar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of planar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of planar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of planar

Swedish

Adjective

plane

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of plan.

Anagrams

• Nepal, alpen

English

Noun

plana

1. plural of planum

Anagrams

• LANAP, LAPAN, Lapan

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?pla.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pla.na/

Noun

plana f (plural planes)

1. plain (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

   Synonyms: planura, planícia

2. flounder

   Synonym: rèmol de riu

Adjective

plana f sg

1. feminine singular of pla

Further reading

• “plana” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “plana” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “plana” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plana” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Verb

plana

1. third-person singular past historic of planer

Anagrams

• palan

Galician

Adjective

plana f sg

1. feminine singular of plano

Icelandic

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin pl?nus (“level, flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?la?na/
• Rhymes: -a?na

Verb

plana (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative planaði, supine planað)

1. (informal) to plan

   Synonym: skipuleggja

2. (mechanics' jargon) to plane (make flat, level)

Conjugation

Italian

Verb

plana

1. third-person singular present indicative of planare
2. second-person singular imperative of planare

Latin

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

•  pl?n?t?rium

Noun

pl?na f (genitive pl?nae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) smoothing plane

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

pl?na

• Bresciano: piona
• Catalan: plana
• Comasco: piana, piona
• Old French: plaine
  • ? Middle English: plaine, plaine
    • English: plane
    • ? Irish: plána
• Friulian: plana
• Istriot: spiana
• Ladin: plana
• Lombard: piana
• Neapolitan: chiana
• Sardinian: prana
• Piedmontese: piana
• Portuguese: plaina
• Old Occitan: plana
• Sicilian: chiana
• Spanish: llana, plana
• Trentino: piona
• Venetian: piana
• Veronese: piona
• ? Greek: ????? (pláni)

*pl?nea

• Northern Italian: piagna
• ? Greek: ?????? (plánia)
  • ? Ottoman Turkish: ??????? (planya)
    • Turkish: planya
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: bl?nja

*pl?nula

• Italian: pialla

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• pl?na: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pla?.na/, [?p??ä?nä]
• pl?na: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pla.na/, [?pl??n?]
• pl?na: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pla?.na/, [?p??ä?nä]
• pl?na: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pla.na/, [?pl??n?]

Adjective

pl?na

1. nominative feminine singular of pl?nus
2. nominative neuter plural of pl?nus
3. accusative neuter plural of pl?nus
4. vocative feminine singular of pl?nus
5. nominative neuter plural of pl?nus

Adjective

pl?n?

1. ablative feminine singular of pl?nus

References

• plana in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plana in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• plana in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Mussafia, Adolf (1873) Beitrag zur Kunde der norditalienischen Mundarten im XV. Jahrhunderte (Denkschriften der Philosophisch-Historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften; 22), Wien: In Commission bei Karl Gerold’s Sohn, page 88

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

plana n pl

1. definite plural of plan

Occitan

Pronunciation

Adjective

plana

1. feminine singular of plan

Old Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pl?na.

Noun

plana f

1. stain

Descendants

• Polish: plama
  • ? Belarusian: ?????? (pljáma)
  • ? Ukrainian: ?????? (pljáma)

Further reading

• M. Arcta S?ownik Staropolski/P (ca?o??) on the Polish Wikisource.pl.Wikisource:M. Arcta S?ownik Staropolski/P (ca?o??)
• “plama”, in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego?^[1], 2013

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??na

Adjective

plana

1. feminine singular of plano

Romanian

Etymology

From French planer.

Verb

a plana (third-person singular present planeaz?, past participle planat) 1st conj.

1. to plane

Conjugation

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plana/, [?pla.na]

Adjective

plana

1. feminine singular of plano

Noun

plana f (plural planas)

1. face; side (of a sheet of paper)
2. page (of a newspaper)

Derived terms

• a toda plana
• enmendar la plana

Swedish

Etymology

From plan +? -a.

Adjective

plana

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of plan.

Verb

plana (present planar, preterite planade, supine planat, imperative plana)

1. plane; to move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water

Conjugation

See also

• Medelplana
• plana ut