Platte

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See also: platte and Plätte

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Platte.

Proper noun

Platte (plural Plattes)

  1. A surname from German.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Platte is the 21986th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1180 individuals. Platte is most common among White (95.42%) individuals.

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle High German plate, from late Old High German platta, from Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide; flat”). Doublet of Plätte.

Noun

Platte f (genitive Platte, plural Platten)

  1. flat, thin, regularly (not necessarily circular) shaped object
  2. Various short forms:
    1. (informal, computing) Clipping of Festplatte (“hard disk”).
    3. (music) Clipping of Schallplatte (“vinyl record, gramophone record”).
    4. (photography) Clipping of Fotoplatte (“photographic plate”).
    5. (printing) Clipping of Druckplatte (“printing plate”).
    6. Clipping of Grabplatte (“flat gravestone”).
    7. Clipping of Tischplatte (“tabletop”).
    8. Clipping of Herdplatte (“stovetop”).
  3. A flat, ceramic serving plate, or the food served on it.
  4. (geology) tectonic plate
  5. (climbing) smooth rock with no hand- or footholds
  6. (numismatics) planchet
  7. (Austria, Vienna, archaic) gang (criminal gang)
Declension
Declension of Platte
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Platte die Platten
genitive einer der Platte der Platten
dative einer der Platte den Platten
accusative eine die Platte die Platten
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Czech: plát
  • → Kashubian: plata

Etymology 2

From Rotwelsch platt machen, platte machen (“to spend the night outside”), originally “to flee outside”, from Yiddish מאַכן פּליטה (makhn pleyte, “to escape, run away”). פּליטה (pleyte) is from Hebrew פְּלֵטָה (pəlēṭā, “remainder, survivors”). Doublet of Pleite.

Noun

Platte f (genitive Platte, plural Platten)

  1. bivouac; overnight camp
  2. A fixed outdoor sleeping place of a person or people of a nomadic group.
Declension
Declension of Platte
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Platte die Platten
genitive einer der Platte der Platten
dative einer der Platte den Platten
accusative eine die Platte die Platten

Further reading

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

Noun

Platte f

  1. plural of Platt
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