different between platen vs platan

English

Etymology

From French platine, from plat (“flat”). See plate, and compare platin.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æt?n

Noun

platen (plural platens)

1. (printing) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
2. The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
3. The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool.
4. The flat glass surface of a scanner or photocopier on which operators place items to be scanned.

Translations

Anagrams

• Plante, pental, planet

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

platen

1. Plural form of plaat

Anagrams

• lapten, plante

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• plata

Noun

platen m or f

1. definite masculine singular of plate

Slovene

Noun

platen

1. genitive dual/plural of platno

English

Alternative forms

• platane [16th-19th c.]

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin platanus; later reborrowed from Middle French platane.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?plat(?)n/

Noun

platan (plural platans)

1. (now rare, literary) A planetree.
   • 1633, John Donne, "The Autumnall":

     Xerxes strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, / Was lov'd for age, none being so large as shee [...].

   • A double hill ran up his furrowy forks / Beyond the thick-leaved platans of the vale.

Anagrams

• Patlan, planta

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• platanu

Etymology

From Greek ???????? (plátanos). Compare the doublet paltin. Cf. also Romanian platan.

Noun

platan m (plural platanj)

1. plane tree

Synonyms

• paltin

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Platane from Latin platanus from Ancient Greek ???????? (plátanos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /platan/

Noun

platan m

1. plane tree, any tree of genus Platanus

Declension

References

Esperanto

Adjective

platan

1. accusative singular of plata

Icelandic

Noun

platan

1. definite nominative singular of plata

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (plátanos).

Noun

platan m (definite singular platanen, indefinite plural plataner, definite plural platanene)

1. a plane (tree), plane tree (genus Platanus)

Derived terms

• platanlønn

References

• “platan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (plátanos).

Noun

platan m (definite singular platanen, indefinite plural platanar, definite plural platanane)

1. a plane (tree), plane tree (genus Platanus)

Derived terms

• platanløn, platanlønn

References

• “platan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pla.tan/

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (plátanos).

Noun

platan m inan

1. plane tree, any tree of genus Platanus

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) platanowy

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

platan f

1. genitive plural of platana

Further reading

• platan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek ???????? (plátanos), partially through the French intermediate platane. See also paltin, inherited through a Vulgar Latin intermediate.

Noun

platan m (plural platani)

1. plane tree

Related terms

• paltin