Platte

See also: platte and Plätte

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Platte.

Proper noun

Platte (plural Plattes)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• 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.

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplatə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈplatːə/ (Switzerland)
• Rhymes: -atə

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Etymology 1

From Middle High German plate, from late Old High German platta, from Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide; flat”). Doublet of Plätte.

Noun

Platte f (genitive Platte, plural Platten)

1. flat, thin, regularly (not necessarily circular) shaped object
2. 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”).
3. A flat, ceramic serving plate, or the food served on it.
4. (geology) tectonic plate
5. (climbing) smooth rock with no hand- or footholds
6. (numismatics) planchet
7. (Austria, Vienna, archaic) gang (criminal gang)

Declension

Declension of Platte [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Platte	die	Platten
genitive	einer	der	Platte	der	Platten
dative	einer	der	Platte	den	Platten
accusative	eine	die	Platte	die	Platten

Derived terms

• Arbeitsplatte
• Aufschnittplatte
• Betonplatte
• Bleiplatte
• Dachplatte
• Eisenplatte
• Felsplatte
• Glasplatte
• Goldplatte
• Grabplatte
• Holzplatte
• Käseplatte
• Metallplatte
• Plattenvertrag
• Schallplatte
• Silberplatte
• Stahlbetonplatte
• Stahlplatte
• Steinplatte
• Tischplatte
• Wegplatte
• Wurstplatte
• Zementplatte

 

Related terms

• Plattenbau
• Plattenladen
• Plattensammlung
• Plattenspieler
• Plattenverlegung

 

Descendants

• → Czech: plát
• → Kashubian: plata

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

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.

Declension

Declension of Platte [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Platte	die	Platten
genitive	einer	der	Platte	der	Platten
dative	einer	der	Platte	den	Platten
accusative	eine	die	Platte	die	Platten

Further reading

• “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

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplatə/

Noun

Platte f

1. plural of Platt