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Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pláta m (genitive singular pláta, nominative plural plátaí)
- (printing, photography, publishing, dentistry, cooking) plate
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| pláta
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phláta
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bpláta
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pláta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pláta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “pláta”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “pláta”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024