platan

• platane [16th-19th c.]

Borrowed from Latin platanus; later reborrowed from Middle French platane.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈplat(ə)n/

platan (plural platans)

1. (now rare, literary) A planetree.
   • 1633, John Donne, "The Autumnall":

     Xerxes strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, / Was lov'd for age, none being so large as shee [...].

   • Alfred, Lord Tennyson

     A double hill ran up his furrowy forks / Beyond the thick-leaved platans of the vale.

• Patlan, planta

• platanu

From Greek πλάτανος (plátanos). Compare the doublet paltin. Cf. also Romanian platan.

platan m (plural platanj)

1. plane tree

• paltin

Borrowed from German Platane from Latin platanus from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).[1]

• IPA^(key): /platan/

platan m

1. plane tree, any tree of genus Platanus

platan

1. accusative singular of plata

platan

1. definite nominative singular of plata

Ultimately from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).

platan m (definite singular platanen, indefinite plural plataner, definite plural platanene)

1. a plane (tree), plane tree (genus Platanus)

• platanlønn

• “platan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Ultimately from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).

platan m (definite singular platanen, indefinite plural platanar, definite plural platanane)

1. a plane (tree), plane tree (genus Platanus)

• platanløn, platanlønn

• “platan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpla.tan/

Ultimately from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).

platan m inan

1. plane tree, any tree of genus Platanus

• (adjective) platanowy

platan f

1. genitive plural of platana

• platan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Greek πλάτανος (plátanos), partially through the French intermediate platane. See also paltin, inherited through a Vulgar Latin intermediate.

platan m (plural platani)

1. plane tree

• paltin