plata

Aragonese

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plata

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Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide”), because silver was often made into sheets.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplata/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: pla‧ta

Noun

plata f (plural platas)

1. silver

   Synonym: archent

Asturian

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plata

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Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide”), because silver was often made into sheets.

Noun

plata f (plural plates)

1. silver

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish plata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplata/,
• Hyphenation: pla‧ta

Noun

pláta (Basahan spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜆ)

1. silver

   Synonym: pirak

Related terms

Catalan

Etymology

From the feminine of plat, or from Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide”), because silver was often made into sheets.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

• Audio (Valencian)

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Noun

plata f (uncountable)

1. silver
2. platter

Synonyms

• (metal): argent
• (serving dish): plàtera

Derived terms

• platejar

Related terms

Further reading

• “plata” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “plata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “plata” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plata” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”), from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”). Compare Italian piatto, Swedish and German platt, Portuguese and Spanish chato, as well as English plat (“plot of land”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: pla‧ta

Adjective

plata (accusative singular platan, plural plataj, accusative plural platajn)

1. flat

Derived terms

• plateta (“slightly flat”)
• platega (“very flat”)
• platigi (“to flatten”)
• platiĝi (“to become flat”)

Galician

Noun

plata f (plural platas)

1. plate (photographic)

Gothic

Romanization

plata

1. Romanization of 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌰

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰlaːta/
• Rhymes: -aːta

Noun

plata f (genitive singular plötu, nominative plural plötur)

1. plate (thin, flat object)
2. record (vinyl disc)

Declension

Verb

plata (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative plataði, supine platað)

1. to trick, deceive

Conjugation

Latvian

Adjective

plata

1. inflection of plats:
   1. genitive singular masculine
   2. nominative singular feminine

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• platen

Noun

plata m or f

1. definite feminine singular of plate

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

plata f

1. definite singular of plate

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• pláća (Croatia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plǎːta/
• Hyphenation: pla‧ta

Noun

pláta f (Cyrillic spelling пла́та)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) pay

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide”), because silver was often made into sheets. As with plato, this word may be semi-learned or avoided certain phonetic changes due to use by mainly the upper classes. Compare Portuguese prata, Catalan plata. Displaced Old Spanish ariento from Latin argentum. Compare English plate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplata/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: pla‧ta

Adjective

plata m or f (masculine and feminine plural platas)

1. (heraldry) argent

   Synonym: blanco

Noun

plata f (plural platas)

1. silver

   Synonym: argento (poetic)

2. (Latin America) money, dough

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinero

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Ye'kwana: jüdata

References

Further reading

• “plata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch plat.

Adjective

plata

1. flat

Descendants

• → Aukan: paata
• → Caribbean Javanese: platah
• → Saramaccan: paáta

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish plata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplata/,
• Hyphenation: pla‧ta

Noun

plata (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜆ)

1. (literary) silver

   Synonym: pilak

2. (literary) silver coin

See also

• pera