Translingual

Proper noun

Platanus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Platanaceae – the plane trees and sycamores.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots - clades; Proteales - order; Platanaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), Platanus orientalis (Oriental plane tree) - selected species; Platanus × acerifolia (London planetree) - selected hybrids

Latin

platanus (planetree)

Noun

platanus f ‎(genitive platanī); second declension

1. planetree, sycamore

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• platanīnus

Related terms

• platanon

Descendants

References

• platanus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• platanus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “platanus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• platanus in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly