πλατύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *plətús, from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from *pleth₂- (“flat”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

πλᾰτῠ́ς • (platús) m (feminine πλᾰτεῖᾰ, neuter πλᾰτῠ́); first/third declension

1. wide, broad
2. flat, level
3. broad-shouldered
4. far advanced (of seasons)
5. broad, strong
6. diffuse
7. widespread, frequent
8. (feminine substantive)
   1. street (usually of a main street)
   2. flat of the hand
   3. type of dish or cup
   4. broad stripe or border
9. salty, brackish

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: πλατύς (platýs), πλάτη (pláti)
• → Classical Syriac: ܦܠܛܝܐ (plāṭīā)
  • → Old Armenian: պողոտայ (połotay), պաղատայ (pałatay), պողոտ (połot)
    • Armenian: պողոտա (poġota)
• → Latin: platea (see there for further descendants)
• → Vulgar Latin: *plattus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “πλατύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλατύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πλατύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πλατύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• πλατύς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πλατύς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4116 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• πλατύς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • broad idem, page 100.
  • broad-backed idem, page 100.
  • flat idem, page 326.
  • stalwart idem, page 809.
  • wide idem, page 978.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaˈtis/

Adjective

πλατύς • (platýs) m

1. wide, broad

Declension

Synonyms

• ευρύς (evrýs)
• φαρδύς (fardýs)

Antonyms

• στενός (stenós, “thin, narrow”)

Related terms

• πλαταίνω (plataíno)
• πλατέα (platéa)
• πλατεία (plateía)
• πλατειάζω (plateiázo)
• πλατειασμός (plateiasmós)
• πλατειαστικός (plateiastikós)
• πλάτεμα (plátema)
• πλάτη (pláti)
• πλατιά (platiá)
• πλάτος (plátos)
• πλάτυνση (plátynsi)
• πλατύνω (platýno)
• πλάτυσμα (plátysma)
• πλατυτέρα (platytéra)
• πλατύτητα (platýtita)
• πλάτωμα (plátoma)
• πλατωσιά (platosiá)

Further reading

• πλατύς - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.