platan
English
    
    Alternative forms
    
- platane [16th–19th c.]
Etymology
    
Borrowed from Latin platanus; later reborrowed from Middle French platane.
Pronunciation
    
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈplat(ə)n/
Noun
    
platan (plural platans)
- (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 [...].
 
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:- A double hill ran up his furrowy forks / Beyond the thick-leaved platans of the vale.
 
 
Aromanian
    
    Alternative forms
    
- platanu
Synonyms
    
Czech
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from German Platane from Latin platanus from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).[1]
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈplatan]
Declension
    
References
    
- "platan" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
Icelandic
    
    
Norwegian Bokmål
    
    Etymology
    
Ultimately from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).
Noun
    
platan m (definite singular platanen, indefinite plural plataner, definite plural platanene)
- a plane (tree), plane tree (genus Platanus)
Derived terms
    
- platanlønn
References
    
- “platan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
    
    Etymology
    
Ultimately from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).
Noun
    
platan m (definite singular platanen, indefinite plural platanar, definite plural platanane)
- a plane (tree), plane tree (genus Platanus)
Derived terms
    
- platanløn, platanlønn
References
    
- “platan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈpla.tan/
- Audio - (file) 
- Rhymes: -atan
- Syllabification: pla‧tan
Etymology 1
    
Internationalism; compare English plane tree, French platane, German Platane, ultimately from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).
Declension
    
Etymology 2
    
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Romanian
    
    Etymology
    
From Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos), Latin platanus, partially through the French intermediate platane. See also paltin, inherited through a Vulgar Latin intermediate.