πλάτανος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πλατάνιστος (platánistos)

Etymology

The word has been derived from πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”), under the assumption that the tree was named after its broad leaves of flat patches of bark. According to Beekes, this etymology must be rejected in view of the opaque derivation of the oldest attested form πλατάνιστος (platánistos). Instead, it can be assumed that the name of this tree was borrowed from and only secondarily became associated with πλατύς (platús).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /plá.ta.nos/ → /ˈpla.ta.nos/ → /ˈpla.ta.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /plá.ta.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ta.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ta.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ta.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ta.nos/

Noun

πλᾰ́τᾰνος • (plátanos) f (genitive πλᾰτᾰ́νου); second declension

1. planetree (Platanus orientalis)

Declension

Second declension of ἡ πλᾰ́τᾰνος; τῆς πλᾰτᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πλᾰ́τᾰνος hē plátanos	τὼ πλᾰτᾰ́νω tṑ platánō	αἱ πλᾰ́τᾰνοι hai plátanoi
Genitive	τῆς πλᾰτᾰ́νου tês platánou	τοῖν πλᾰτᾰ́νοιν toîn platánoin	τῶν πλᾰτᾰ́νων tôn platánōn
Dative	τῇ πλᾰτᾰ́νῳ têi platánōi	τοῖν πλᾰτᾰ́νοιν toîn platánoin	ταῖς πλᾰτᾰ́νοις taîs platánois
Accusative	τὴν πλᾰ́τᾰνον tḕn plátanon	τὼ πλᾰτᾰ́νω tṑ platánō	τᾱ̀ς πλᾰτᾰ́νους tā̀s platánous
Vocative	πλᾰ́τᾰνε plátane	πλᾰτᾰ́νω platánō	πλᾰ́τᾰνοι plátanoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πλατάνιον (platánion)
• πλατανίστινος (platanístinos)
• πλατανιστοῦς (platanistoûs)
• πλατανών (platanṓn)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: platanus
• → Translingual: Platanus

Further reading

• “πλάτανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλάτανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πλάτανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

---

Greek

Alternative forms

• πλατάνι n (platáni)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos, “plane tree”), from πλατύς (platús, “broad”)

Noun

πλάτανος • (plátanos) m (plural πλάνατοι)

1. plane tree

Declension

Declension of πλάτανος

	singular	plural
nominative	πλάτανος •	πλάτανοι •
genitive	πλάτανου •,  πλατάνου •	πλάτανων •,  πλατάνων •
accusative	πλάτανο •	πλάτανους •,  πλατάνους •
vocative	πλάτανε •	πλάτανοι •
Second forms are formal.