Platonic

Platonic

See also: platonic and platònic

English

Alternative forms

• platonic, platonick, Platonick

Etymology

From Latin Platōnicus; surface analysis is Plato +‎ -n- (intervocalic) +‎ -ic (“relating to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pləˈtɒnɪk/

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Adjective

Platonic (comparative more Platonic, superlative most Platonic)

1. Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.
2. Alternative letter-case form of platonic (non-sexual).
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:

     The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world.

Derived terms

• Neoplatonic
• Platonical
• Platonically
• Platonic body
• Platonic dialogue
• Platonic hydrocarbon
• Platonic solid
• Platonic year

 

Related terms

• Plato
• Platonism
• Platonist
• Platonistic

 

Translations

related to Plato

Arabic: أَفْلَاطُونِيّ‎ (ʾaflāṭūniyy) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: platònic (ca) Czech: platónský Estonian: platooniline Finnish: platonilainen French: platonicien (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: platonisch (de) Greek: πλατωνικός (el) (platonikós) Ancient: Πλατωνικός (Platōnikós) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Ido: Platonala (io) Irish: Platónach Norwegian: Bokmål: platonsk Nynorsk: platonsk Polish: platoński (pl) Russian: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пла̀то̄нскӣ Roman: plàtōnskī (sh) Slovak: platónsky Spanish: platónico (es) Yiddish: פּלאַטאָניש‎ (platonish)

Noun

Platonic (plural Platonics)

1. A Platonist; a follower of Plato's ideas.
2. A Platonic solid.

Anagrams

• platicon