pláta

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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)

  1. (printing, photography, publishing, dentistry, cooking) plate

Declension

Declension of pláta (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative pláta plátaí
vocative a phláta a phlátaí
genitive pláta plátaí
dative pláta plátaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an pláta na plátaí
genitive an phláta na bplátaí
dative leis an bpláta
don phláta
leis na plátaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of pláta
radical lenition eclipsis
pláta phláta bpláta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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