plat
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æt
- Homophone: plait
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Etymology 1
The noun is derived from Middle English plat, platte (“flat part of a sword; flat piece of ground, plot of ground”),[1] probably a variant of Middle English plot,[2] (modern English plot)[3] and influenced by Middle English plat, plate[4] (modern English plate) and Anglo-Norman, Middle French and Old French plat.[5]
The verb is derived from the noun.[6]
Noun
plat (plural plats)
- A plot of land; a lot.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Ayre Rectified. With a Digression of the Ayre.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 220:
- The best ſoyle commonly yeelds the worſt Ayre, a dry ſandy plat is fitteſt to build upon, and ſuch as is rather hilly then plaine, full of Downes, a Cotſwald county, as being moſt commodious for hawking, hunting, wood, waters, and all manner of pleaſures.
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- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Blackbird”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 208:
- O Blackbird! sing me something well: / While all the neighbours shoot thee round, / I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, / Where thou may’st warble, eat, and dwell.
- 1913 April, Lela Angier Lenfest, “The Garden of ‘The Rosary’”, in Sunset: The Pacific Monthly, volume 30, number 4, San Francisco, Calif.: H. S. Crocker, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 353:
- [W]e come to a spot which must have been a favorite resting-place for the poet, a low stone seat under a huge live oak, with a formal plat of grass and a stone seat opposite.
- A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
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- 1888, John W[orth] Kern, official reporter, “The City of Indianapolis v. Patterson”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, […], volume 112, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bowen-Merrill Co., law publishers, →OCLC, headnote:
- A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.
- 1982, Robert N[eil] Corley, Peter J. Shedd, Charles F. Floyd, Real Estate and the Law, New York, N.Y.: Business Division, Random House, →ISBN, page 174; Charles F. Floyd, Marcus T. Allen, “Public Restrictions on Ownership”, in Real Estate Principles, 7th edition, Chicago, Ill.: Dearborn Real Estate Education, Dearborn Financial Publishing, 2002, →ISBN, page 75:
- The purpose of the preapplication conference is to allow the developer to meet informally with the planning board before going to the expense of preparing a formal plat.
- 2005 November 23, Aharon N. Varady, “Bond Hill, Ohio, 1870–1903”, in Bond Hill: Origin and Transformation of a 19th Century Cincinnati Metro-Suburb, 10th edition, Cincinnati, Oh.: Henry Watkin Press & Cosmographic Design Initiates, →ISBN, page 76:
- In 1877, a formal plat of the unincorporated village was published [...]. The publication of the plat, seven years after the village was laid out, likely reflected the beginning of the process toward formal incorporation of the municipality.
- (obsolete) A plot, a scheme.
- 1582 July 9, Robert Bowes, “CCXXV.—‘To Sir Francis Walsingham, ix July 1583.’ From the Letter-Book, p. 223.”, in [Joseph] Stevenson, editor, The Correspondence of Robert Bowes, of Aske, Esquire, the Ambassador of Queen Elizabeth in the Court of Scotland (The Publications of the Surtees Society), London: J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Son, […]; William Pickering, […]; Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, published 1842, →OCLC, page 488:
- Besides some care is taken, so far as conveniently can be, both to give regard to the further spring of any matter tending to the entry or execution of any other or evil plat, and also upon the sight thereof, to have timely recourse to the King, to warn him and others to beware and provide for the seasonable prevention of the danger; [...]
- 1589, George Puttenham, chapter XII, in The Arte of English Poesie: […], London: Printed by Richard Field, […], →OCLC; republished as Jos[eph] Haslewood, editor, The Arte of English Poesie, London: Printed by Harding and Wright, […], for Robert Triphook, […], 1811, →OCLC, book II (Of Proportion Poetical), page 90:
- [S]o shall our plat in this one point be larger and much surmount that which [Richard] Stanihurst first tooke in hand by his exameters dactilicke and spondaicke in the translation of Virgills Eneidos, [...]
Translations
Verb
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- (transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.
- 1888, John W[orth] Kern, official reporter, “The City of Indianapolis v. Patterson”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, […], volume 112, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bowen-Merrill Co., law publishers, →OCLC, headnote:
- A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.
- 1902 June 19, Justice Horatio Rogers Jr., Edward C. Stiness, reporter, “Ellen Dawson et al. vs. Robert Broome”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, volume 24, Providence, R.I.: E. L. Freeman & Sons, printers to the state, published 1903, →OCLC, page 371:
- He platted his land, extending the lateral lines of the lots south of Shore, or India street, indefinitely out into the river.
- 1913 January 6, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, “Tesson v. H. K. Porter Co.”, in The Atlantic Reporter (National Reporter System, State Series), permanent edition, volume 86, St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 278:
- [...] it may vacate a street where the original Owner has merely platted his land to conform to streets already located and established by the municipality, where no lot has been sold by such owner prior to such vacation.
- 2005, Carolyn Cartier, “San Francisco and the Left Coast”, in Carolyn Cartier and Alan A. Lew, editors, Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes (Critical Geographies; 19), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 138:
- Vistas in San Francisco—a city whose real estate development platted out land geometrically and gridded over a series of hills—offer vertical, stunning viewscapes of architecture and the Bay, natural and built environments.
Translations
Etymology 2
The noun is a variant of plait.[7]
The verb is from Middle English platte, English plat, respectively archaic past and past participle forms of English pleat[8] (a variant of plait),[9] Middle English platten (“to braid, weave; plait; to fold”).[10]
Noun
plat (plural plats)
- A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […][1], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Her haire nor looſe nor ti'd in formall plat, / Proclaimd in her a careleſſe hand of pride; [...]
- c. 1806 record in the journals of Lewis and Clark, recorded in The United States Exploration Anthology (2013, →ISBN):
- they also wear a cap or cup on the head formed of beargrass and cedar bark. the men also frequently attatch[sic] some small ornament to a small plat of hair on the center of the crown of their heads.
- 1830, The Ladies’ Museum, volume 31, page 59:
- [...] hair ornamented with a bandeau of gold on one side of the forehead, with a large pearl in the centre of the bandeau; on the opposite side is a plat of hair.
- Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
- 1824, New Material for Straw Plat, in The New England Farmer, volume 2, page 316:
- The large silver medal and twenty guineas, were this Session given to Miss Sophia Woodhouse, (Mrs. Wells,) of Weathersfield, in Connecticut, United States, for a new Material for Straw Plat.
- 1829, On British Leghorn Plat for Hats and Bonnets, by Lady Harriet Bernard, in Gill’s Technological Repository, volume 4, page 381:
- Her Ladyship, in a letter to A. Aikin, Esq., [...] dated Castle Bernard, Ireland, Oct. 19, 1827, states that she has made some improvement in the mode of preparing the rye-straw, which is the material for plat employed in the school under her ladyship’s patronage.
- 1842, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 23:
- Mr. Corston states that 781,605 straw hats had been imported from 1794 to 1803; and that in the last four years of that period 5281 lbs. of straw-plat, which was equal to 26,405 hats, had also been brought to this country.
- 2000, Whittington Bernard Johnson, Race Relations in the Bahamas, 1784–1834:
- Eleuthera made palmetto plat for hats, arrowroot, and casaba starch.
- 2002, John McAllister Ulrich, Signs of Their Times →ISBN, page 45
- The most detailed example of this particular mode of production occurs in the section of Cottage Economy devoted to the making of straw plat for hats, fashioned from raw material grown in England.
- 1824, New Material for Straw Plat, in The New England Farmer, volume 2, page 316:
Translations
Verb
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- (dated except regional England) To braid, to plait.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 27:29:
- And when they had platted a crowne of thornes, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, ſaying, haile king of the Jewes.
- 1844, Thomas Jefferson Jacobs, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean, page 349:
- A customer hailed him; he placed the stool on the ground, and the customer seated himself upon it, while the barber shaved his face, platted his hair, and washed his hands [...]
- 2006, Elka Paquette, Taboo, →ISBN, page 100:
- She platted her hair in segments the night before, so that today she’d have a rippling effect through her hair.
Translations
Etymology 3
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From Middle English plat, plate, platte (“flat; smooth; blunt, plain”),[11] from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French plat (“(adjective) flat, level; calm; blunt, plain; (adverb) in a flat position; directly, straight; bluntly, plainly”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flat; smooth”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat; wide”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”). The English word is cognate with French plat, Italian piatto, Middle Dutch plat (modern Dutch plat (“flat”)), Middle High German blat, plat, Middle Low German plat (modern German platt (“flat”)), Old Danish plat (modern Danish plat), Old Occitan plat (modern Occitan plat), Old Swedish plat (modern Swedish platt); and is a doublet of flat.[12]
Adjective
plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)
- (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
- [c. 1386–1390, John Gower, “Book I”, in Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume I (in Middle English), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 57:
- He lith down his one ere al plat / Unto the grounde and halt it faſte [...]
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- c. 1400 John Lydgate, poem, commented upon by Thomas Gray and printed in The Works of Thomas Gray, volume 5, page 305:
- But, crying mercy, the emperour lay plat on the ground.
- 1889, Henry Morley, Early Prose Romances: The history of Reynard the Fox, page 149:
- But else, hold alway[sic] your tail fast between your legs that he catch you not thereby; and hold down your ears lying plat after your head that he hold you not thereby; and see wisely to yourself.
- 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:
- But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me. Let things be plat and plain between us. I am a man who shoots straight at his mark.
- 2011, Gordon Kendall, MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, volume 7.II: Gavin Douglas, The Aenid (1513) →ISBN, page 638:
- The whirling wheel and speedy swift axle-tree / Smat down to ground, and on the earth lay plat.
Adverb
plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)
- (obsolete except Scotland) Flatly, plainly.
- Synonyms: bluntly, directly, straightforwardly
- [c. 1360s (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […] (in Middle English), [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC, folio clxv, verso, column 1:
- But, ſir, ye lye, I tel you plat [...]
- But, sir, you lie, I tell you plainly [...]]
- c. 1547‒1555 John Hooper, A Declaration of the Ten Commandments, published by the Parker Society in 1843:
- Fourth, see [that] thou hide nothing, nor dissemble, but speak plat, and plainly as much as thou knowest.
- c. 1584‒1656 Joseph Hall:
- But single out, and say once plat and plain / That coy Matrona is a courtesan;
References
- ^ “plat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ “plot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ “plat, n.3”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2006; “plat”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “plā̆t(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ Compare “plat, n.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2006.
- ^ “plat, v.4”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2006.
- ^ “plat, n.6”, in OED Online
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- ^ “plat, v.3”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2006.
- ^ “pleat, v.”, in OED Online
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- ^ “platten, v.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ “plat, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ “plat, adj. and adv.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2006.
Further reading
plat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
plat (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “plat” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “plat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Substantivization of the archaic adjective plat (compare French plat (“flat”)), from Lua error in Module:etymology at line 170: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
plat m (plural plats)
Related terms
Czech
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From platit (“to pay”) derived from Proto-Slavic *platъ (“a piece of cloth”),[1] as pieces of cloth were used as currency. Possibly cognate with plátno (“canvas, linen”).
Noun
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- salary
- nástupní plat — starting salary
- základní plat — basic salary
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Etymology 2
Noun
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Danish
Adjective
plat
- inane, lacking inspiration, corny, insipid
- 2016, Anne Strandvad, Vejen til Sofie, Lindhardt og Ringhof →ISBN
- De ting, hun lavede, var platte og måtte klemmes ud af pligt. Først når de andre spillede dem, blev de til andet end livløse slag på klaveret.
- The things she made were uninspired and had to be squeezed out by duty. It was only when others played them that they became anything else than lifeless beatings on the piano.
- De ting, hun lavede, var platte og måtte klemmes ud af pligt. Først når de andre spillede dem, blev de til andet end livløse slag på klaveret.
- 2006, Min krønike: 1932-1979, Gyldendal A/S →ISBN, page 150
- Jeg fandt, at især de sidste fire linjer i visen var platte og stødende.
- I found that, in particular, the last four lines in the song were inane and offensive.
- Jeg fandt, at især de sidste fire linjer i visen var platte og stødende.
- 2016, Jørgen Thorgaard, Kolonien, Lindhardt og Ringhof →ISBN
- Enhver var af den opfattelse, Ladegaards morsomheder var platte.
- Everyone was of the view that Ladegaard's jokes were corny.
- Enhver var af den opfattelse, Ladegaards morsomheder var platte.
- 2011, Irene Oestrich, Slip bekymringerne, Politikens Forlag →ISBN
- ... at de syntes Carolines bemærkninger var platte, ...
- ... that they felt Caroline's remarks to be stupid, ...
- ... at de syntes Carolines bemærkninger var platte, ...
- 1986, Eske Holm, Den erotiske handel: roman
- Mænds fascination af Martin berørte ham meget lidt. Han syntes dog bøsserne var besværlige – han syntes, de oftest var platte og seksuelt fikserede.
- The fascination that men held for Martin affected him very little. He did however feel that the gays were troublesome – he felt that they were most often insipid and sexually fixated.
- Mænds fascination af Martin berørte ham meget lidt. Han syntes dog bøsserne var besværlige – han syntes, de oftest var platte og seksuelt fikserede.
- 2016, Anne Strandvad, Vejen til Sofie, Lindhardt og Ringhof →ISBN
Inflection
Inflection of plat | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Indefinte common singular | plat | plattere | plattest2 |
Indefinite neuter singular | plat | plattere | plattest2 |
Plural | platte | plattere | plattest2 |
Definite attributive1 | platte | plattere | platteste |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus.
Adjective
plat (comparative platter, superlative platst)
- flat
- De wereld is plat.
- The world is flat.
- of soft consistency
Inflection
Declension of plat | ||||
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uninflected | plat | |||
inflected | platte | |||
comparative | platter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | plat | platter | het platst het platste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | platte | plattere | platste |
n. sing. | plat | platter | platste | |
plural | platte | plattere | platste | |
definite | platte | plattere | platste | |
partitive | plats | platters | — |
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Descendants
Etymology 2
From Platduits, which originally referred to any dialect specific to the low countries.
Noun
plat n (uncountable)
- One’s local dialect.
- Kan jij plat praten?
- Can you speak the dialect?
- Kan jij plat praten?
Adjective
plat (comparative platter, superlative platst)
- as one’s local dialect
- In de realityserie Oh Oh Cherso spraken de deelnemers plat Haags.
- The participants in the reality show Oh Oh Cherso spoke dialectal Dutch from the Hague.
- (by extension) common, rural, vulgar
- een platte mop
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French
Etymology
From Middle French plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
plat (feminine plate, masculine plural plats, feminine plural plates)
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Descendants
- → Romanian: plat
Noun
plat m (plural plats)
- a flat area of ground; a flat thing; a flat dish or receptacle
- dish or course (e.g. served in a restaurant)
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Further reading
- “plat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Gothic
Romanization
plat
- Romanization of 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄
Old French
Noun
plat oblique singular, m (oblique plural plaz or platz, nominative singular plaz or platz, nominative plural plat)
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
plat m or n (feminine singular plată, masculine plural plați, feminine and neuter plural plate)
Declension
Noun
plat n (plural [please provide])
- The high first tone in Hanyu pinyin
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Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
plat m
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Further reading
- “plat”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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