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English

Etymology

From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is from Old French plante. Doublet of clan, borrowed through Celtic languages.

The verb is from Middle English planten, from Old English plantian (“to plant”), from Latin plant?re, later influenced by Old French planter. Compare also Dutch planten (“to plant”), German pflanzen (“to plant”), Swedish plantera (“to plant”), Icelandic planta (“to plant”).

Pronunciation

• (General New Zealand, Received Pronunciation) enPR: plänt, IPA^(key): /pl??nt/, [p?l???nt]
• (General Australian, US, Canada, Northern England) enPR: pl?nt, IPA^(key): /plænt/, [p?l?ænt]
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [p?l?e?nt]
• Hyphenation: plant
• Rhymes: -??nt, -ænt
• Rhymes: -ænt

Noun

plant (plural plants)

1. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.

2. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
3. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
6. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
7. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.

8. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
9. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
10. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
    • 2008, Phil Yates, The Times, April 28 2008:

      O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds.

11. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
12. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
13. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
14. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
15. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
16. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

Usage notes

The scientific definition of what organisms should be considered plants changed dramatically during the 20th century. Bacteria, algae, and fungi are no longer considered plants by those who study them. Many textbooks do not reflect the most current thinking on classification.

Hypernyms

• (biology): Archaeplastida

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• plant pot
• plant room

Translations

See plant/translations § Noun.

Verb

plant (third-person singular simple present plants, present participle planting, simple past and past participle planted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
2. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.

   That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!

3. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

   Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.

   to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground
4. To place in the ground.
5. To furnish or supply with plants.

   to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest

6. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
7. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.

   to plant a colony

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Plantations

     planting of countries like planting of woods

8. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.

   to plant Christianity among the heathen

9. To set up; to install; to instate.

Derived terms

• faceplant, handplant
• plant out

Related terms

• plantation

Translations

See plant/translations § Verb.

See also

• plant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Verb

plant

1. imperative of plante

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch plante, from Latin planta. Doublet of clan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?nt/
• Hyphenation: plant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

plant f (plural planten, diminutive plantje n)

1. plant, any member of the kingdom Plantae
2. (potentially offensive) cabbage, vegetable (person with severe brain damage)

Hyponyms

• boom
• gewas
• gras
• heester
• struik

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?nt/
• Hyphenation: plant

Verb

plant

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of planten
2. imperative of planten

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Belgium) /pl?nt/, (Netherlands) /pl?nt/
• Hyphenation: plant

Verb

plant

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of plannen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of plannen

References

French

Etymology

Deverbal of planter. Doublet of plan (“plan, map”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??/
• Homophones: plan, plans, plants

Noun

plant m (plural plants)

1. seedling
2. young plant or plantation

Further reading

• “plant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

plant

1. inflection of planen:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French plante (“plant”).

Noun

plant

1. plant (organism)

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French plante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pl??t]

Noun

plant

1. a plant

Verb

plant

1. Medial form of plante; to plant.

Middle English

Noun

plant

1. Alternative form of planete (“planet”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

plant

1. imperative of plante

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?nt/

Verb

plant

1. imperative of planta

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??nt/

Adjective

plant

1. neuter singular of plan

Old Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin planta.

Noun

plant pl

1. children

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Descendants

• Old Irish: cland
  • Irish: clann
  • Manx: cloan
  • Scottish Gaelic: clann
• Welsh: plant

Swedish

Adjective

plant

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of plan.

Welsh

Etymology

From Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plant/

Noun

plant m (singulative plentyn)

1. children, young people
2. children (of parents), offspring (sometimes of animals), progeny, issue; descendants
   • 1620, Revised version of William Morgan’s translation of the Bible, Joel 1:3:

3. followers, disciples, servants
4. people regarded as product of a particular place, time, event, circumstances, etc.

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “plant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin planta. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

plant c (plural planten, diminutive plantsje)

1. plant

Further reading

• “plant (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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