Plato

See also: Appendix:Variations of "plato"

English

Alternative forms

• Platon

Etymology

From Middle English Plato, Platon, from Latin Platō, Platōn, 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/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.

Related terms

• platonic
• Platonic
• Platonic hydrocarbon
• platonic love
• Platonics
• platonic solid
• Platonism
• Platonist

Translations

Greek philosopher

• Arabic: أَفْلَاطُون (ar) m (ʔaflāṭūn)

  Hijazi Arabic: أفلاطون m (ʔaflāṭōn)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܠܵܛܘܿܢ (plāṭōn)

• 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 (cs) 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 Greek: Πλάτων m (Plátōn)

• Gujarati: અફલાતૂન m (aphalātūn)
• 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)
• Ingrian: Platona
• Irish: Platón m
• Italian: Platone m
• Japanese: プラトン (ja) (Puraton)
• Khmer: ប្លាតុង (plaatong)
• Korean: 플라톤 (Peullaton)
• Lao: ປະລາຕົງ (pa lā tong)
• Latin: Plato m
• Lombard: Platon
• Macedonian: Платон m (Platon)
• Marathi: अफलातून (mr) m (aphlātūn), प्लेटो m (pleṭo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Platon

  Nynorsk: Platon

• Persian: افلاطون (fa) (aflâtun), فلاطون (falâtun), پلاتن (pelāton), فلاتن (falāton)
• 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
• Plethon
• Pythagoras
• Socrates

Further reading

• “Plato”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Plato”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Plato”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Plato”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “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

• A plot

Latin

Alternative forms

• Platōn

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-us

Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us

Proto-Hellenic *plətús

Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús)

Ancient Greek -ων (-ōn)

Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn)bor.

Latin Platō

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɫa.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈplaː.to]

Proper noun

Platō m sg (genitive Platōnis); third declension

1. Plato, a Greek philosopher

   lēctitāvisse Platōnem studiōsē

   to have often read Plato zealously

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	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.