Platonic

See also: platonic and platònic

English

Alternative forms

• platonic, platonick, Platonick

Etymology

From Latin Platōnicus. By surface analysis, Plato +‎ -n- (intervocalic) +‎ -ic (“relating to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pləˈtɒnɪk/

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Adjective

Platonic (comparative more Platonic, superlative most Platonic)

1. Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.
2. Alternative letter-case form of platonic (non-sexual).
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:

     The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world.

Derived terms

• Neoplatonic
• Platonical
• Platonically
• Platonic body
• Platonic dialogue
• Platonic hydrocarbon
• Platonic solid
• Platonic year

 

Related terms

• Plato
• Platonism
• Platonist
• Platonistic

 

Translations

related to Plato

• Arabic: أَفْلَاطُونِيّ (ʔaflāṭūniyy)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: platònic (ca)
• Czech: platónský
• Estonian: platooniline
• Finnish: platonilainen
• French: platonicien (fr)
• Georgian: პლატონური (ṗlaṭonuri)
• German: platonisch (de)
• Greek: πλατωνικός (el) (platonikós)

  Ancient: Πλατωνικός (Platōnikós)

• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: Platonala (io)
• Irish: Platónach
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: platonsk

  Nynorsk: platonsk

• Polish: platoński (pl)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пла̀то̄нскӣ

  Roman: plàtōnskī (sh)

• Slovak: platónsky
• Spanish: platónico (es)
• Yiddish: פּלאַטאָניש (platonish)

Noun

Platonic (plural Platonics)

1. A Platonist; a follower of Plato's ideas.
2. A Platonic solid.

Anagrams

• platicon