different between platt vs plats

English

Etymology 1

From Early Modern English platte, a variation (probably dialectal) of plot (“plot of land”); see plat and plot for more.

Noun

platt (plural platts)

1. Obsolete spelling of plat or plot (scheme, plan, design, map).
   • 1794 July 30, minutes of the Executive council of Georgia, published in Minutes of the Executive council, from January 14, 1778, to January 6, 1785 (1908), page 684:

     3rdly That it also be recommended to all persons concerned to have their platts passed through the Surveyor Generals Office, and, in all respects, ready for the grant, in case they shall be entitled to the same, by the said 10th of September.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:platt.

Etymology 2

From Middle English platten, whence also plait; see plat.

Noun

platt (plural platts)

1. Obsolete spelling of plat (material made by interweaving, especially material made by interweaving straw, used to make hats).

   straw platt

   • c. 1750, a record, quoted in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1931):

     The versatility of his craftsmanship is likewise evidenced by the inventory which included "8½ Doz. Walking Sticks & Rodds" and "3½ Doz. Straw Hatts, some platt &c." His name appears in several account books of early Philadelphians, in 1751, […]

German

Etymology

From northern Middle High German plat, blat and Middle Low German plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, probably from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús). Compare Dutch plat, French plat, Italian piatto, obsolete English plat. Also related to English flat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plat/
• Rhymes: -at

Adjective

platt (comparative platter, superlative am plattesten)

1. flat
2. (of a building or structure; by extension also of immaterial things) completely destroyed, razed to the ground
3. bromidic, banal
4. (colloquial) very tired, exhausted
5. (colloquial) astonished, dumbstruck

Declension

Synonyms

• flach

Related terms

• Platt
• Plattfuß
• Platter
• Plattbauchspinne

Further reading

• “platt” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle Low German plat, a borrowing from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plat/

Adjective

platt

1. flat

2. flattened

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle Low German plat, a borrowing from Old French plat (whence French plat), from Vulgar Latin *plattus. Cognate with German platt, Dutch plat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

platt (masculine platten, neuter platt, comparative méi platt, superlative am plattsten)

1. flat

Declension

Maltese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

platt m (plural platti)

1. plate (dish)

Related terms

• plattin

Swedish

Etymology

From German platt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plat?/

Adjective

platt (comparative plattare, superlative plattast)

1. flat

Declension

Related terms

• platta
• plattång
• plattfisk
• plattform
• plattfot
• plattpannkaka
• plattysk

See also

• flat
• platå

Adverb

platt (comparative plattare, superlative plattast)

1. entirely, absolutely, at all

   det är platt intet

   that is absolutely nothing, that is nothing at all

Noun

platt c

1. a flat piece of ground

Declension

References

• platt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

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