Plato

See also: plato, plató, platô, and Plató

English

Etymology

Via Latin Plato, from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn), from πλατύς (platús, “broad, wide”), either because of Plato's robust body, or wide forehead or the breadth of his eloquence.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪ.təʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪ.toʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

Proper noun

Plato

1. Greek philosopher, 427–347 BC, follower of Socrates.
2. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1993 Nina Bawden, The Real Plato Jones, Houghton Miffin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 1:

     My name is Plato Jones. Plato Constantine Jones. Plato because my mother is Greek, and Jones because my father is Welsh, and Constantine after his father, my grandfather, who is Constantine Llewellyn Jones.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Platonic, platonic
• platonic hydrocarbons
• platonic love
• Platonics
• platonic solid
• Platonism

 

Translations

Greek philosopher

• Arabic: أَفْلَاطُون (ar) m (ʔaflāṭūn)

  Hijazi Arabic: أفلاطون m (ʾaflāṭōn)

• Armenian: Պլատոն (Platon)

  Old Armenian: Պղատոն (Płaton)

• Bulgarian: Пла́тон m (Pláton)
• Catalan: Plató m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柏拉圖／柏拉图 (zh) (Bólātú), 柏拉图 (zh) (Bólātú)

• Czech: Platón m
• Esperanto: Platono
• Finnish: Platon (fi)
• French: Platon (fr) m

  Middle French: Platon m

• Galician: Platón m
• Georgian: პლატონი (ṗlaṭoni)
• German: Plato m, Platon (de) m
• Greek: Πλάτων (el) m (Pláton)

  Ancient: Πλάτων m (Plátōn)

• Hebrew: אַפְּלָטוֹן m (aplatón)
• Hindi: अफ़्लातून m (aflātūn), फ़लातूँ m (falātū̃), अफलातून (hi) m (aphlātūn), फलातूँ (hi) m (phalātū̃)
• Hungarian: Platón (hu)
• Icelandic: Platon m
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• Ido: Platon (io)
• Irish: Platón m
• Italian: Platone m
• Japanese: プラトン (Puraton)
• Khmer: ប្លាតុង (plaatong)
• Korean: 플라톤 (Peullaton)
• Latin: Plato m
• Lombard: Platon
• Macedonian: Платон m (Platon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Platon

  Nynorsk: Platon

• Persian: افلاطون (fa) (aflâtun), فلاطون (falâtun)
• Polish: Platon (pl) m
• Portuguese: Platão m
• Romanian: Platon m
• Russian: Плато́н (ru) m (Platón)
• Spanish: Platón m
• Swedish: Platon
• Telugu: ప్లేటో (plēṭō)
• Thai: เพลโต (plee-dtôo)
• Turkish: Eflatun (tr), Platon (tr)
• Ukrainian: Плато́н (uk) m (Platón)

See also

• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Pythagoras
• Socrates

Anagrams

• A plot

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Platōn

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.toː/, [ˈpɫ̪ät̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.to/, [ˈpläːt̪o]

Proper noun

Platō m sg (genitive Platōnis); third declension

1. Plato, a Greek philosopher

   Lēctitāvisse Platōnem studiōsē.

   To have often read Plato zealously.

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Platō
Genitive	Platōnis
Dative	Platōnī
Accusative	Platōnem
Ablative	Platōne
Vocative	Platō

Related terms

• Platōnica
• Platōnicus (“Platonic”, adjective)
• Platōnicī m (“Platonists”)
• Platōnista (“Platonist”)

 

Descendants

• English: Plato

References

• “Plato”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Plato in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.