plet

plet (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Pleated; plated; folded. [16–17th c.]

• “plet, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Inherited from Latin placitum. Compare Spanish pleito.

plet m (plural plets)

1. dispute, quarrel
2. lawsuit

   Synonym: litigi

• “plet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “plet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “plet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From or related to Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”). Compare Icelandic blettur (“stain, patch of land”) and Swedish plätt (“patch of land, small pancake”).

plet

1. stain, spot
2. a patch, a small area of land
   • 1867, Valdemar Adolph Thisted, Breve fra Helvede: Udgivne af M. Rowel, page 509:

     Aldrig har jeg seet friskere Græs, i det Hele en frodigere, yppigere Vegetation end paa denne velsignede Plet mellem høje, saa godt som øde Bjerge.

     Never have I seen fresher grass, in general lusher, more abundant vegetation than on this blessed patch between tall, practically desolate mountains.

plet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of pleō

From English plate.

plet

1. plate; bowl; dish; platter