Platte

Borrowed from German Platte.

Platte (plural Plattes)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Platte is the 21986^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1180 individuals. Platte is most common among White (95.42%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Platte”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplatə/, [ˈpla.tə], (southern also) [-te], [-tɛ], (chiefly Switzerland also) [ˈplat.tə]

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• Rhymes: -atə

From Middle High German platte, from Old High German platta (ca. 900), from Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide; flat”). Doublet of Plätte and Pläte.

Platte f (genitive Platte, plural Platten)

1. flat, thin, regularly (not necessarily circular) shaped object
2. A flat, fairly large serving plate, or (by extension) the food served on it.
3. Various short forms:
   1. (informal, computing) clipping of Festplatte (“hard disk”)
   3. (music) clipping of Schallplatte (“vinyl record, gramophone record”)
   4. (photography) clipping of Fotoplatte (“photographic plate”)
   5. (printing) clipping of Druckplatte (“printing plate”)
   6. clipping of Grabplatte (“flat gravestone”)
   7. clipping of Tischplatte (“tabletop”)
   8. clipping of Herdplatte (“stovetop”)
   9. (chiefly East Germany) clipping of Plattenbau (“prefab apartment building”)
4. (geology) tectonic plate
5. (climbing) smooth rock with no hand- or footholds
6. (numismatics) planchet
7. (parts of northern and central Germany) alternative form of Pläte (“bald head”)

• → Czech: plát
• → Kashubian: plata

From Rotwelsch platt machen, platte machen (“to spend the night outside”), originally “to flee outside”, from Yiddish מאַכן פּליטה (makhn pleyte, “to escape, run away”). פּליטה (pleyte) is from Hebrew פְּלֵטָה (pəlēṭā, “remainder, survivors”). Doublet of Pleite.

Platte f (genitive Platte, plural Platten)

1. bivouac; overnight camp
2. A fixed outdoor sleeping place of a person or people of a nomadic group.
3. (Austria, Vienna, archaic) gang (criminal gang)

• “Platte” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Platte” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Platte (Scheibe, Unterlage)” in Duden online
• “Platte” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Platte on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• IPA^(key): /ˈplatə/
• Rhymes: -atə
• Syllabification: Plat‧te

Platte f

1. plural of Platt