platt

From Early Modern English platte, a variation (probably dialectal) of plot (“plot of land”); see plat and plot for more.

platt (plural platts)

1. Obsolete spelling of plat (“scheme, plan, design, map”).
   • 1794 July 30, minutes of the Executive council of Georgia, published in Minutes of the Executive council, from January 14, 1778, to January 6, 1785 (1908), page 684:

     3rdly That it also be recommended to all persons concerned to have their platts passed through the Surveyor Generals Office, and, in all respects, ready for the grant, in case they shall be entitled to the same, by the said 10th of September.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:platt.

From Middle English platten, whence also plait; see plat.

platt (countable and uncountable, plural platts)

1. Obsolete spelling of plat (“material made by interweaving, especially by interweaving straw, to make hats”).

   straw platt

   • c. 1750, a record, quoted in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1931):

     The versatility of his craftsmanship is likewise evidenced by the inventory which included "8½ Doz. Walking Sticks & Rodds" and "3½ Doz. Straw Hatts, some platt &c." His name appears in several account books of early Philadelphians, in 1751, […]

• ALTTP

From northern Middle High German plat, blat and Middle Low German plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, probably from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús). Compare Dutch plat, French plat, Italian piatto, obsolete English plat. Also related to English flat.

• IPA^(key): /plat/
• Rhymes: -at

• Audio:

  (file)

platt (strong nominative masculine singular platter, comparative platter, superlative am plattesten)

1. flat
2. (of a building or structure, also figurative) completely destroyed, razed to the ground
3. bromidic, banal
4. (colloquial) very tired, exhausted
5. (colloquial) astonished, dumbstruck
   • 2023, Helge Schneider, “Der letzte Torero”:

     Ich bin der letzte Torero / Aus einer anderen Zeit / Nachts steig' ich heimlich durch die Stadt / Kein Stier in Sicht / Ich bin platt!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• flach

• Platt
• Plattfuß
• Platter
• Plattbauchspinne

• “platt” in Duden online
• “platt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• plat (Wiesemann spelling)

From Middle High German blat, borrowed from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from *pleth₂- + *-us.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈplat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: platt
• Homophone: Platt

platt (comparative platter, superlative plattest)

1. flat; flattened

   Synonym: flach

   Er hod en platter Kopp.

   He has a flat head.

   Das is ganz platt.

   That is entirely flattened.

From Middle Low German plat, a borrowing from Old French plat (whence French plat), from Vulgar Latin *plattus. Cognate with German platt, Dutch plat.

• IPA^(key): /plɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɑt

• Audio:

  (file)

platt (masculine platten, neuter platt, comparative méi platt, superlative am plattsten)

1. flat

• pjatt (obsolete)

Borrowed from Italian piatto and/or Sicilian piattu, probably influenced by English plate.

• IPA^(key): /plat/

platt m (plural platti)

1. plate, dish

   platt ċatt ― shallow plate

   platt fond ― soup plate

From German platt.

• IPA^(key): /platː/

• Audio:

  (file)

platt (comparative plattare, superlative plattast)

1. flat

   platt som en pannkaka

   flat as a pancake

• platta

• flat
• platå

platt (comparative plattare, superlative plattast)

1. entirely, absolutely, at all

   det är platt intet

   that is absolutely nothing, that is nothing at all

platt c

1. a flat piece of ground

• platt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• platt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• platt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)