Plato

Plato

See also: plato, plató, platô, and Plató

English

Etymology

Via Latin Plato, from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn), from πλατύς (platús, “broad, wide”), either because of Plato's robust body, or wide forehead or the breadth of his eloquence.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪ.təʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪ.toʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

Proper noun

Plato

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1993, Nina Bawden, The Real Plato Jones, Houghton Miffin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 1:

     My name is Plato Jones. Plato Constantine Jones. Plato because my mother is Greek, and Jones because my father is Welsh, and Constantine after his father, my grandfather, who is Constantine Llewellyn Jones.

   1. The Greek philosopher, 427–347 BC, follower of Socrates.

Derived terms

• platonic hydrocarbons
• platonic love
• Platonic, platonic
• Platonics
• platonic solid
• Platonism

 

Translations

Greek philosopher

Arabic: أَفْلَاطُون‎ (ar) m (ʾaflāṭūn) Hijazi Arabic: أفلاطون‎ m (ʾaflāṭōn) Armenian: Պլատոն (Platon) Old Armenian: Պղատոն (Płaton) Bulgarian: Пла́тон m (Pláton) Catalan: Plató m Chinese: Mandarin: 柏拉圖／柏拉图 (zh) (Bólātú) Czech: Platón m Esperanto: Platono Finnish: Platon (fi) French: Platon (fr) m Middle French: Platon m Galician: Platón m Georgian: პლატონი (ṗlaṭoni) German: Plato m, Platon (de) m Greek: Πλάτων (el) m (Pláton) Ancient: Πλάτων m (Plátōn) Hebrew: אַפְּלָטוֹן‎ m (aplatón) Hindi: अफ़्लातून m (aflātūn), फ़लातूँ m (falātū̃), अफलातून (hi) m (aphlātūn), फलातूँ (hi) m (phalātū̃) Hungarian: Platón (hu) Icelandic: Platon m Ido: Platon (io) Irish: Platón m Italian: Platone m Japanese: プラトン (Puraton) Khmer: ប្លាតុង (plaatong) Korean: 플라톤 (Peullaton) Latin: Plato m Lombard: Platon Macedonian: Платон m (Platon) Norwegian: Bokmål: Platon Nynorsk: Platon Persian: افلاطون‎ (fa) (aflâtun), فلاطون‎ (falâtun) Polish: Platon (pl) m Portuguese: Platão m Romanian: Platon m Russian: Плато́н (ru) m (Platón) Spanish: Platón m Swedish: Platon Telugu: ప్లేటో (plēṭō) Thai: เพลโต (plee-dtôo) Turkish: Eflatun (tr), Platon (tr) Ukrainian: Плато́н (uk) m (Platón)

See also

• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Pythagoras
• Socrates

Further reading

• Plato at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “Plato”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “Plato”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Plato”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Plato”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Plato, britannica.com
• Plato, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Wikisource:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Plato
• Wikisource:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Plato and Platonism

Anagrams

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Platōn

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.toː/, [ˈpɫ̪ät̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.to/, [ˈpläːt̪o]

Proper noun

Platō m sg (genitive Platōnis); third declension

1. Plato, a Greek philosopher

   LēctitāvissePlatōnem studiōsē.

   To have often read Plato zealously.

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Platō
Genitive	Platōnis
Dative	Platōnī
Accusative	Platōnem
Ablative	Platōne
Vocative	Platō

Related terms

• Platōnica
• Platōnicī m (“Platonists”)
• Platōnicus (“Platonic”, adjective)
• Platōnista (“Platonist”)

 

Descendants

• English: Plato

References

• “Plato”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Plato in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette