platanus Latin · revision 7665

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Cato|origins=grc πλάτανος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈpɫa.ta.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈplaː.ta.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''platanus''' ''f'' (genitive platanī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|πλάτανος|tr=plátanos|t=plane tree]], which Köbler connects with [[m|grc|πλατύς|tr=platús|t=broad]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The ⟨Culex⟩ has a fourth-declension plural ⟨platanūs⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Isidore says it is named from the breadth of its leaves.^(Isidore)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cato, whom he dates 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Cicero mentions the plane tree in verse.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the oriental plane tree, ''Platanus orientalis'', as Cicero's ''sub platanō umbriferā'' “under a shady plane”, Virgil's barren planes, and in Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a plane tree.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''platano'', French ''platane'' and ''plane'', and Romanian ''paltin'', and was borrowed into Spanish as ''plátano''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a shady plane tree.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of barren planes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The oriental [[m|en|plane tree]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[platanīnus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|plane]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}