platte

See also: Platte, plaťte, and Plätte

English

Noun

platte (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of plate.
   • 1589, “Chronicon Pretiosum Snathense; or Lists of Prices of Various Kinds of Agricultural Produce, and of other Articles, in the Ecclesiastical Peculiar of Snaith, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. […]”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume XXI, London: John William Parker and Son, […], published 1858 December, page 411, column 2:

     […] a cotte of platte, a sallet, a halbert, a byll, sworde, and dager, 1l. 6s. 8d.; […]

   • 1619, Edward Butler, quotee, “Clonmel 1603-1641”, in William P. Burke, History of Clonmel, Waterford: […] N. Harvey & Co. for the Clonmel Library Committee, published 1907, page 45:

     Two hundred half Lucoryes, half hundred English hupes, one bruing paune two smale paunes, one brass potte, five chests one trunke fiue brass candlesticks, two coops of platte, two Juells of gould two ringes of gould, two cupperts, tenn poundes worth of triffling in merchant ware, twelve poundes in money, seaven hundred sheepskins, two Spanis tables three quarter hundred Riess three barrells of beare malt twelve peeter dishes, two pattingers, two smale savcers with other smale trifflings.

   • 1649–1660, Middlesex County in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England: Records of Probate and Administration, October 1649-December 1660, page 384:

     It[em] to severall platte cups and spoones / It[em] to severall pewter dishes

Danish

Adjective

platte

1. plural and definite singular attributive of plat

Dutch

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Adjective

platte

1. inflection of plat:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plat/

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Adjective

platte (plural plattes)

1. (Canada) Alternative form of plate

German

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Adjective

platte

1. inflection of platt:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Swedish

Adjective

platte

1. definite natural masculine singular of platt

Anagrams

• palett