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PlateEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Ellipsis of River Plate.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗plateEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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".
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗plateEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English platen, from Old English platian and Old French plater, both ultimately from Latin plata (see above).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗plateEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Middle English, partly from Anglo-Norman plate (“plate, bullion”) and partly from Latin plata (“silver”), from Vulgar Latin *platta (“metal plate”), from feminine of Latin *plattus (“flat”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗plateEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From Spanish plata (“silver”).
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