πλάτανος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πλατάνιστος (platánistos)

Etymology

Traditionally derived from πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”), or taken to be inherited directly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥th₂enós (“wide, broad”), under the assumption that the tree was named after its broad leaves or flat patches of bark. However, based on the opaque morphology of the oldest attested form πλατάνιστος (platánistos), Beekes rejects this etymology, and in view of the "local botanic" semantic category, derives the word from Pre-Greek. Thus, the resemblance with πλατύς (platús) was shaped later by folk etymology.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /plá.ta.nos/ → /ˈpla.ta.nos/ → /ˈpla.ta.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /plá.ta.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ta.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ta.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ta.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ta.nos/

Noun

πλᾰ́τᾰνος • (plátanos) f (genitive πλᾰτᾰ́νου); second declension

1. planetree (Platanus orientalis)

Declension

Second declension of ἡ πλᾰ́τᾰνος; τῆς πλᾰτᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πλᾰ́τᾰνος hē plátanos	τὼ πλᾰτᾰ́νω tṑ platánō	αἱ πλᾰ́τᾰνοι hai plátanoi
Genitive	τῆς πλᾰτᾰ́νου tês platánou	τοῖν πλᾰτᾰ́νοιν toîn platánoin	τῶν πλᾰτᾰ́νων tôn platánōn
Dative	τῇ πλᾰτᾰ́νῳ têi platánōi	τοῖν πλᾰτᾰ́νοιν toîn platánoin	ταῖς πλᾰτᾰ́νοις taîs platánois
Accusative	τὴν πλᾰ́τᾰνον tḕn plátanon	τὼ πλᾰτᾰ́νω tṑ platánō	τᾱ̀ς πλᾰτᾰ́νους tā̀s platánous
Vocative	πλᾰ́τᾰνε plátane	πλᾰτᾰ́νω platánō	πλᾰ́τᾰνοι plátanoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πλατάνιον (platánion)
• πλατανίστινος (platanístinos)
• πλατανιστοῦς (platanistoûs)
• πλατανών (platanṓn)
• χᾰμαιπλᾰ́τᾰνος (khamaiplátanos)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: platanus
• → Translingual: Platanus

Further reading

• “πλάτανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλάτανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πλάτανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πλάτανος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Alternative forms

• πλατάνι n (platáni)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos, “plane tree”), from πλατύς (platús, “broad”)

Noun

πλάτανος • (plátanos) m (plural πλάνατοι)

1. plane tree

Declension

Declension of πλάτανος

	singular	plural
nominative	πλάτανος •	πλάτανοι •
genitive	πλάτανου •,  πλατάνου •	πλάτανων •,  πλατάνων •
accusative	πλάτανο •	πλάτανους •,  πλατάνους •
vocative	πλάτανε •	πλάτανοι •
Second forms are formal.

Further reading

• πλάτανος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el