plátano

Learned borrowing from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).

plátano m (plural plátanos)

1. banana, plantain
2. banana plant

• (banana): banana
• (banana plant): bananeira, plataneiro

• plataneiro

Learned borrowing from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).

• Hyphenation: plá‧ta‧no

plátano m (plural plátanos)

1. plane (any tree of the genus Platanus)

• “plátano”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “plátano”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈplatano/ [ˈpla.t̪a.no]

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• Rhymes: -atano
• Syllabification: plá‧ta‧no

Borrowed from Latin platanus (“plane tree”), from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).

plátano m (plural plátanos)

1. (Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Cuba, Mexico, Spain) banana (fruit)

   Synonyms: banana, guineo, banano, cambur

2. plantain (the plant and fruit related to banana, not the Plantago genus)

   Synonym: plátano macho

• Though all are botanically the same, often banana and guineo are used specifically for sweet varieties eaten as fruit, whereas plátano is reserved for the starchy varieties (plantains), which are cooked and eaten more like vegetables.
• In Mexico, plátano refers to both banana and plantain, so plátano macho may refer to plantain when differentiating from banana.
• In Spain, plátano refers to both banana and plantain, so banana may refer to banana when differentiating from plantain.

Borrowed from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).

plátano m (plural plátanos)

1. (Spain, botany) sycamore, plane (a tree belonging to the genus Platanus)

• “plátano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025