different between platten vs latten

English

Etymology

See plat (“flat”, adjective).

Verb

platten (third-person singular simple present plattens, present participle plattening, simple past and past participle plattened)

1. (transitive, glassmaking) To flatten and make into sheets or plates.

References

• platten in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

platten

1. inflection of platt:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Luxembourgish

Adjective

platten

1. inflection of platt:
   1. strong/weak nominative/accusative masculine singular
   2. weak dative masculine/neuter singular
   3. strong/weak dative plural

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pletten

Etymology

From Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, to give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *platjan? (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *b(e)lad-, *b(e)led- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”) (whence Dutch pletteren), German platzen (“to burst, split, break up, bounce”), Swedish plätta (“to tap, pat”). Compare Old English plætt (“slap, smack, a sounding blow”). See pat.

Verb

platten

1. (transitive) to strike with the hand; to slap
   • c. 1380, Piers Plowman (A):

     Peronelle Proude-herte platte hir to the erthe,

Swedish

Noun

platten

1. definite singular of platt

English

Alternative forms

• laton

Etymology

From Middle English laten, latun, latoun, from Old French laton, laiton, from Arabic ???????? (l???n, “copper, copper alloy”), itself from Common Turkic *altun (“gold”). See Turkish alt?n, Old Turkic ????????????????? (altun, “gold”), Karakhanid ?????????? (alt?n, “gold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læt?n/

Noun

latten (countable and uncountable, plural lattens)

1. (archaic or historical) An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.
2. Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets.

   gold latten

Anagrams

• Talent, antlet, latent, talent

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?n

Noun

latten

1. Plural form of lat

Anagrams

• talent

Middle English

Noun

latten

1. Alternative form of latoun