plater

See also: Plater

English

Etymology

From plate +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

plater (plural platers)

1. Someone who plates metal.
2. Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items.
3. A machine for calendering paper.
4. (biology) A device for depositing cells on a plate.
5. (horse-racing) A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.

Related terms

• electroplater
• L-plater
• P-plater
• selling-plater
• tin-plater

Translations

someone who plates metal

• German: Schmied (de) m
• Swedish: pläterare c

someone who installs sheet metal

• Finnish: peltiseppä (fi)
• Swedish: plåtslagare (sv) c

machine

• Finnish: kalanteri (fi)

inferior racehorse

• Finnish: kaakki (fi)

Anagrams

• Alpert, palter, replat

Basque

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plater/, [pla.t̪e̞r]

Noun

plater inan

1. plate
2. dish

Declension

Declension of plater (inanimate, ending in tap -r)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	plater	platera	platerak
ergative	platerek	platerak	platerek
dative	plateri	platerari	platerei
genitive	plateren	plateraren	plateren
comitative	platerekin	platerarekin	platerekin
causative	platerengatik	platerarengatik	platerengatik
benefactive	platerentzat	platerarentzat	platerentzat
instrumental	platerez	plateraz	platerez
inessive	plateretan	platerean	plateretan
locative	plateretako	platereko	plateretako
allative	plateretara	platerera	plateretara
terminative	plateretaraino	platereraino	plateretaraino
directive	plateretarantz	platererantz	plateretarantz
destinative	plateretarako	platererako	plateretarako
ablative	plateretatik	plateretik	plateretatik
partitive	platerik	—	—
prolative	platertzat	—	—

Further reading

• “plater”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “plater”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Middle English

Alternative forms

• platere, platir, platyr, platter

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel; equivalent to plate +‎ -el.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaˈtɛːr/, /ˈplatər/

Noun

plater (plural platers)

1. platter

Descendants

• English: platter
• Scots: plaeter
• Yola: plathearès, platheares (plural)

References

• “plater, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

plater m or f

1. indefinite plural of plate

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

plater f

1. indefinite plural of plate

Old French

Noun

plater oblique singular, m (oblique plural platers, nominative singular platers, nominative plural plater)

1. platter (serving plate)

Descendants

• → English: platter

References

• plater on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Polabian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German plattêr.

Noun

plater m ?

1. dish

References

• Polański, Kazimierz (1976) “plater”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 4 (perĕt – ŕotťǝ), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 527
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “plater”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 111
• Olesch, Reinhold (1971) “Plattêr”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 2: P – S, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 779