plats

plats

1. plural of plat

plats

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of plat

• -plast, slapt, spalt, splat

plats

1. plural of plat

From German Platz.

plats (genitive platsi, partitive platsi)

1. square (of a city)

plats

1. masculine plural of plat

From Proto-Baltic *platús, from *pl̥th₂us < *pleth₂- (“flat”). In Latvian, former u-stem adjectives were assimilated into other classes; *platus gave rise to both an o-stem and a yo-stem variant which later on became independent words, plats and plašs, with different semantic nuances (compare also dobs and dobjš, or ass and ašs); this separation began in the 18th century but became complete only in the 1870s. Cognates include Lithuanian platùs, 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”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [plats]

plats (definite platais, comparative platāks, superlative visplatākais, adverb plati)

1. wide, broad (having a relatively large distance from side to side)

   plats dēlis, sols ― wide board, bench

   platas durvis ― wide door

   plata šoseja ― wide road

   plats smaids ― wide smile

   vīrietis ar platiem pleciem ― a man with broad shoulders

   putns ar platu knābi ― a bird with a wide beak

   koki ar platām lapām ― a tree with broad leaves

   vienu metru plats audums ― one-meter wide fabric, cloth

   desmit metru plata upe ― a 10-meter wide river

2. wide, broad (going beyond the average width of other similar objects)

   plats krekls ― wide shirt

   blūze ir par platu ― the blouse is too wide

3. (phonetics) broad, lax (pronounced with relatively large mouth opening)

   platais patskanis ― broad, lax vowel

   platais e, ē ― broad, lax e, ē (i.e., [æ] instead of [ɛ])

4. wide, broad (having large aperture)

   pavērt vārtus platāk ― to open the gate wider

   plati atvērt muti ― to open the door wide

5. wide, broad (having large diameter)

   plata caurule ― wide tube

   ieliet dzērienu platā traukā ― to pour the drink into a wide container

   sakārtot ziedus platā vāze ― to put the flowers into a wide vase

In general, plats is used to mean “wide, broad” in a more literal sense, while plašs has more metaphorical senses.

• plašs

• šaurs

• platība
• platums

plats m

1. inflection of plat:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

From Old Swedish platz, from Old Norse plaz, from Middle Low German plātze, from Old French place, from Latin platea.

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plats c

1. place; any geographical position a little larger than just a point, such as a village, city or just a "nowhere"
2. a seat; such as in a bus or in a theater

   Ursäkta, är den här platsen upptagen?

   Excuse me, but is this seat occupied?

3. (uncountable) room; space

   Hur mycket plats behövs på hårddisken?

   How much space is needed on the hard drive?

   För att lägga ett stort pussel behövs mycket plats

   To lay a large jigsaw puzzle, you need a lot of space

4. a position; such as allowing you to play in a (competing) sports team, or take a university course

   Den kurs jag helst ville gå hade bara tio platser

   The course I'd preferred only allowed ten students

6. a position in a ranking

   Han ligger på sjundeplats

   He's in seventh place

Equivalently, (sense 5) may be put as "Han ligger på sjunde plats."

• platsa

• plats in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• plats in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• plats in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• plats in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• plast, spalt