different between plats vs lats

English

Noun

plats

1. plural of plat

Verb

plats

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plat

Anagrams

• -plast, slapt, spalt, splat

Catalan

Noun

plats

1. plural of plat

Estonian

Noun

plats (genitive platsi, partitive platsi)

1. square (of a city)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

French

Adjective

plats

1. masculine plural of plat

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *platus, from *pl?th?us < *pleth?- (“flat”). In Latvian, former u-stem adjectives were assimilated into other classes; *platus gave rise to both an o-stem and a yo-stem variant which later on became independent words, plats and plašs, with different semantic nuances (compare also dobs and dobjš, or ass and ašs); this separation began in the 18th century but became complete only in the 1870s. Cognates include Lithuanian platùs, Old Prussian plat- (from a placename, Platmedyen, where median = “forest”), Sanskrit ???? (p?thu, “broad, wide, great, powerful”), Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, wide, flat, smooth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plats]

Adjective

plats (definite platais, comparative plat?ks, superlative visplat?kais, adverb plati)

1. wide, broad (having a relatively large distance from side to side)

2. wide, broad (going beyond the average width of other similar objects)

3. (phonetics) broad, lax (pronounced with relatively large mouth opening)

4. wide, broad (having large aperture)

5. wide, broad (having large diameter)

Usage notes

In general, plats is used to mean “wide, broad” in a more literal sense, while plašs has more metaphorical senses.

Declension

Synonyms

• plašs

Antonyms

• šaurs

Derived terms

• plat?ba
• platums

References

Old French

Noun

plats m

1. inflection of plat:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish platz, from Old Norse plaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

plats c

1. place; any geographical position a little larger than just a point, such as a village, city or just a "nowhere"
2. a seat; such as in a bus or in a theater

3. (uncountable) room; space

4. a position; such as allowing you to play in a (competing) sports team, or take a university course

Declension

See also

• platsa
• på plats
• ta en plats
• sätta någon på plats

Anagrams

• plast, spalt

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi ??? (l??) etc. + -s.

Noun

lats

1. plural of lat: staves; pillars.

Etymology 2

Clipping of latrine (q.v.) + -s.

Noun

lats pl (normally plural, singular lat)

1. (Britain slang) Latrines: rudimentary or military facilities for urination and defecation.
   • 1927, William Edward Collinson, Contemporary English, p. 92:

     At Salisbury Plain and Camberley in 1909/10 I learnt a number of camping expressions like... lats (latrines).

   • 1940, M. Marples, Public School Slang, p. 112:

     Other synonyms [sc. for lavatories] are rears, lats... and dubs.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:bathroom

Etymology 3

From Latvian lats, from Latvija (“Latvia”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??ts/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l?ts/

Noun

lats

1. plural of lat: the former currency or money of Latvia.
2. (historical numismatics) Alternative form of lat (plural lati).

Etymology 4

A clipping of Latin latissimus + -s

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læts/

Noun

lats pl (normally plural, singular lat)

1. (slang) The latissimus dorsi muscles.

Etymology 5

A clipping of latitude + -s.

Noun

lats

1. plural of lat: latitude.

References

Anagrams

• Alts, LTAs, SALT, Salt, TLAs, alts, last, salt, slat

Gothic

Romanization

lats

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Latvian

Etymology

A reduced form of Latvija, first used in 1922 to name the new currency that replaced the Latvian rublis.

Pronunciation

Noun

lats m (1st declension)

1. lats (monetary unit of Latvia between 1922 and 1940, and again between 1993 and 2013; replaced by the Euro on Jan. 1st, 2014)

Declension

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lats m (definite singular latsen, indefinite plural latsar, definite plural latsane)

1. (numismatics) lats (currency of Latvia)

References

• “lats” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Latvian lats.

Noun

lats ?

1. lats, currency of Latvia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lats

1. indefinite genitive singular of lat

Anagrams

• last, salt, stal, tals