Luxembourgish

Noun

Plat m ‎(plural Platen)

1. plate, dish, platter
2. dish, meal

English

Noun

plat ‎(plural plats)

1. A braid; a plait (of hair).
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint:

     Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat, / Proclaimed in her a careless hand of pride.

   • c. 1806, record in the journals of Lewis and Clark, recorded in The United States Exploration Anthology (2013, ISBN 1628409932):

     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.

2. 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 0821414011), 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.

Verb

plat ‎(third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)

1. To braid, to plait.
   • Matthew 27.29 (KJV):

     And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head.

   • 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 1427607516), page 100:

     She platted her hair in segments the night before, so that today she'd have a rippling effect through her hair.

Etymology 2

From Early Modern English platte, a variation (probably dialectal) of plot ‎(“plot of land”) (whence plot). More at plot.

Noun

plat ‎(plural plats)

1. A plot of land; a lot.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.3:

     The best soil commonly yields the worst air, a dry sandy plat is fittest to build upon, and such as is rather hilly than plain […].

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve.

   • 1833, Alfred Tennyson, The Blackbird:

     O Blackbird! sing me something well: / While all the neighbors shoot thee round, / I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, / Where thou may’st warble, eat, and dwell.

   • 1914, The Maine Catholic Historical Magazine, volume 2, page 22:

     […] 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.

2. A map showing property lines (delineating one or more plots of land), especially as a legal document.
   • 1580, Richard Hakluyt, Notes given to Arthur Pet and Charles Jackman:

     For which cause I wish you to note all the islands, and to set them down in [a] plat.

   • 1888, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Indiana:

     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.

   • 2002, Real Estate Principles (ISBN 0793141834), 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, Aharon Varady, Bond Hill: Origin and Transformation of a 19th Century Cincinnati Metro-Suburb (ISBN 1411615948), page 76:

     In 1877, a formal plat of the unincorporated village was published (see figure 34).

3. (obsolete) A plot, a scheme.
   • 1582 July 9, letter from Robert Bowes to Francis Walsingham, The Correspondence of Robert Bowes (1842):

     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, […]

   • 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie:

     So shall our plat in this one point be larger and much surmount that which Stanlhurst first tooke in hand.

Verb

plat ‎(third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)

1. To create a plat (formal plan of property lines), to lay out streets and building lots; to map.
   • 1902 June 19, Ellen Dawson at al. vs. Robert Broome, reported in Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, volume 24 (1903), page 371

     He platted his land, extending the lateral lines of the lots south of Shore, or India street, indefinitely out into the river.

   • 1888, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Indiana:

     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.

   • 1913 January 6, Tesson v. H. K. Porter Co. (Supreme Court of Pennsylvania), reported in The Atlantic Reporter, volume 86, 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.

Etymology 3

From a Germanic source; compare Dutch plat ‎(“flat”), German platt ‎(“flat”). Compare flat.

Adjective

plat ‎(comparative more plat, superlative most plat)

1. (obsolete) Flat; level; (by extension) on the level, frank.
   • c. 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, book 1:

     He leyeth downe his one care all plat / Unto the grounde, […]

   • 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 1907322493), 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)

1. (obsolete) Plainly; flatly.
   • c. 1360, Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose:

     But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat.

   • 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 in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• TLPA

Catalan

Etymology

Substantivization of the archaic adjective plat (compare French plat ‎(“flat”)), from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς ‎(platús, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• (Eastern) IPA^(key): /pɫat/
• (Western) IPA^(key): /plat/

Noun

plat m ‎(plural plats)

1. plate
2. dish

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plat/
• Rhymes: -at

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

plat m

1. salary

   nástupní plat — starting salary

   základní plat — basic salary

Declension

Synonyms

• mzda
• gáže
• výplata

Derived terms

• platový

Etymology 2

Noun

plat

1. genitive plural of plato

References

1. ↑ plat in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɑt

Etymology 1

Adjective

plat ‎(comparative platter, superlative platst)

1. flat

   De wereld is plat.‎

   The world is flat.

2. of soft consistency

   platte kaas‎

   soft cheese (quark, creamy cheese)

   platte kak‎

   soft stool

Inflection

Derived terms

• platbranden
• plattegrond

Etymology 2

From Platduits, which originally referred to any dialect specific to the low countries.

Noun

plat n ‎(uncountable)

1. One's local dialect.

   Kan jij plat praten?

   Can you speak the dialect?

Adjective

plat ‎(comparative platter, superlative platst)

1. as one's local dialect
2. (by extension) common, rural, vulgar

Derived terms

• platte uitdrukking

Anagrams

• lapt

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς ‎(platús, “broad, flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla/

Adjective

plat m ‎(feminine singular plate, masculine plural plats, feminine plural plates)

1. flat

Derived terms

• plateau
• à plat
• platitude

Noun

plat m ‎(plural plats)

1. a flat area of ground; a flat thing; a flat dish or receptacle
2. dish or course (served in a restaurant)

Synonyms

• mets

See also

• plat du jour

Gothic

Romanization

plat

1. Romanization of 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄

Old French

Noun

plat m ‎(oblique plural plaz or platz, nominative singular plaz or platz, nominative plural plat)

1. a footbridge

Romanian

Etymology

From French plat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plat]

Adjective

plat m, n ‎(feminine singular plată, masculine plural plați, feminine and neuter plural plate)

1. flat, level, even

Declension

Noun

plat n ‎(plural [please provide])

1. The high first tone in Hanyu pinyin

Synonyms

• tonul plat

Slovak

Noun

plat m ‎(genitive singular platu, nominative plural platy, declension pattern of dub)

1. salary

Declension

Synonyms

• mzda

Derived terms

• platík m
• platovo adv
• platový -á -é

Related terms

• platiť
• výplata