释义 |
plat- Also pletə-. To spread. (Oldest form *pletə2‑). Extension of pelə-2. Derivatives include flatter1, plant, plateau, platitude, and plaza.- Variant form *plad‑.
- flat1, from Old Norse flatr, flat;
- flatter1, from Old French flater, to flatter. Both a and b from Germanic *flataz, flat.
- Suffixed variant form *plad-yo‑. flat2, from Old English flet(t), floor, dwelling, from Germanic *flatjam.
- Basic form *plat‑. flan, from Late Latin fladō, flat cake, pancake, from Germanic *flathō(n), flat cake.
- flounder2, from Anglo-Norman floundre, flounder, from a Scandinavian source probably akin to Old Swedish flundra, flatfish, flounder, from Germanic suffixed nasalized form *flu-n-th-r-jō‑.
- Nasalized form *pla-n-t‑. clan, plan, plant, plantain1, plantar; plantigrade, supplant, transplant, from Latin planta, sole of the foot, and denominative plantāre, to drive in with the sole of the foot, plant, whence planta, a plant.
- Suffixed zero-grade form *pl̥t(ə)-u‑. piazza, place, plaice, plane4, plane tree, plate, plateau, Plateresque, platina, platinum, platitude, platy2, platy-, plaza; plateosaurus, from Greek platus, flat, broad.
[Pokorny plā̆t‑ 833.] |
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