Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten. · Such dishes collectively. · The contents of such a dish. · A course at a meal.
From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato. (foot): Cockney rhyming slang, from "plates of meat" for "feet".
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