platten
English
Etymology
See plat (“flat”, adjective).
Verb
platten (third-person singular simple present plattens, present participle plattening, simple past and past participle plattened)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To flatten and make into sheets or plates.
- to platten cylinder glass
References
- “platten”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
platten
- inflection of platt:
Luxembourgish
Adjective
platten
- inflection of platt:
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, to give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *platjaną (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *b(e)lad-, *b(e)led- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”) (whence Dutch pletteren), German platzen (“to burst, split, break up, bounce”), Swedish plätta (“to tap, pat”). Compare Old English plætt (“slap, smack, a sounding blow”). See pat.
Verb
platten
- (transitive) to strike with the hand; to slap
- c. 1380 Piers Plowman (A):
- Peronelle Proude-herte platte hir to the erthe,
- c. 1380 Piers Plowman (A):
Swedish
Noun
platten
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