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Latvian
Adjective
platus
- accusative plural masculine of plats
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *platús, from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from the root *pleth₂-.[1][2][3]
Cognates include Latvian plats, Old Prussian plat- (from a placename, Platmedyen, where median = “forest”), Sanskrit पृथु (pṛthu, “broad, wide, great, powerful”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, wide, flat, smooth”)
Adjective
platùs m (feminine platì) stress pattern 4
- broad, wide
- Synonym: erdvùs
- Antonyms: siaũras, añkštas
- Hypernym: dìdelis
Declension
Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of platus
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of platus
Derived terms
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “platus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362
- ^ “platùs” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 906 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
- ^ “platus”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
Further reading
- “platus”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- “platus”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024