plata

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

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

plata f (plural platas)

1. silver

   Synonym: archent

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

plata f (plural plates)

1. silver

Borrowed from Spanish plata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplata/ [ˈpl̪a.ta]
• Hyphenation: pla‧ta

pláta (Basahan spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜆ)

1. silver

   Synonym: pirak

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.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpla.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpla.ta]

• Audio (Valencia):

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plata f (uncountable)

1. silver
2. platter

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

• platejar

• “plata”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “plata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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.

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”).

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

• Audio:

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

1. flat

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈplata/ [ˈpla.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: pla‧ta

plata f (plural platas)

1. plate (photographic)

plata

1. romanization of 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌰

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

plata f (genitive singular plötu, nominative plural plötur)

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

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “plata”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “plata” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Borrowed from Danish plade (“fraud; betrayal”). Compare German Plattenschlager (“trickster”), Old Norse plattoslagari, Old Danish pladeslager, also Swedish plåt (“currency”), Danish platte (“coin; counterfeiter”), platte and plade (“to counterfeit”).

plata f (genitive singular plötu, nominative plural plötur)

1. (colloquial) trick

   Synonym: plat n

   slá e-m plötu ― play a trick on someone

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

1. (colloquial) to trick, deceive, play a trick

• plat

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “plata”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “plata” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Borrowed from German Platte

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

plata f

1. plate, tile (sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces)

   Synonym: fliza

2. (technology) disk, CD, CD-ROM, DVD, etc.

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2, page płyta
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “płyta”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

plata

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

• platen

plata m or f

1. definite feminine singular of plate

plata f

1. definite singular of plate

plata

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of plată

• pláća (Croatia)

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

pláta f (Cyrillic spelling пла́та)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) pay

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.^[1] Compare Portuguese prata, Catalan plata. Displaced Old Spanish ariento from Latin argentum. Compare English plate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplata/ [ˈpla.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: pla‧ta

plata m or f (masculine and feminine plural platas)

1. (heraldry) argent

   Synonym: blanco

plata f (plural platas)

1. silver

   Synonym: argento (poetic)

2. (Latin America) money, dough

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinero

• → Ye'kwana: jüdata

• “plata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Dutch plat.

plata

1. flat

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

Borrowed from Spanish plata.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈplata/ [ˈplaː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: pla‧ta

plata (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜆ) (literary)

1. silver

   Synonym: pilak

2. silver coin

• lapat, tapal