# pluta
## Lithuanian
### Etymology

Cognate with Polish płeć (“gender, originally: skin”) and Russian плоть (plotʹ, “flesh”).

### Pronunciation

* (plutà) IPA: [pɫʊˈt̪ɐ]
* (plùta) IPA: [ˈpɫʊt̪ɐ]

### Noun

plutà f (plural plùtos) stress pattern 4
* rind (especially of bread)
* (figuratively) something hard and covering another things; crust
    Žemės pluta - Earth's crust

#### Synonyms

* luoba

#### Derived terms

* (diminutive noun) plutẽlė

#### See also

* kevalas, kiautas, lukštas, sluoksnis, šašas, žievė

### References

* ↑ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “płeć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 421
* ↑ http://sjp.pwn.pl/poradnia/haslo/plec;14277.html
* ↑ “pluta” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
* ↑ “pluta” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

## Polish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Greater Poland):
** (Kuyavia) IPA: /ˈplu.ta/
** (Central Greater Poland) IPA: /ˈplu.ta/
** (Southern Greater Poland) IPA: /ˈplu.ta/

### Noun

pluta f
* (Kuyavia) rainy weather; downpour
    Synonyms: słota, ulewa
* (Poznań, Southern Greater Poland) Synonym of kałuża (“puddle”)

### Further reading

* Oskar Kolberg (1867) “pluta”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 275
* Oskar Kolberg (1877) “pluta”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 31
* Waldemar Wierzba (2013) “pluta”, in Słownik Poznańskie słowa i ausdrucki (in Polish), 1st edition, Mierzyn: Albus, →ISBN, page 188

## Romanian
### Noun

pluta
* definite nominative/accusative singular of plută

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pluto, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *plauˀtá, from Proto-Indo-European *plowtóm, from *plewt-.

#### Alternative forms

* plȕto

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plûta/

#### Noun

plȕta f (Cyrillic spelling плу̏та)
* cork, the bast of the cork oak

##### Derived terms

* plȗtnjī (“cork …”)
* plȗtnjāk (“cork oak”)
* plùtača (“cork stopple, as to fasten boats”)
* plȕtast (“like cork”)
* plȕtav (“like cork”)

##### Descendants

* → Bulgarian: плу́та (plúta)
** → Romanian: plută
* → Macedonian: плута (pluta)
* → Slovene: plȕta

#### References

* “plȕto”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
* “pluta”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 4, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1971, published 1990, page 481

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pluta (Cyrillic spelling плута)
* third-person singular present of plutati

## Slovene
### Etymology

Borrowed in the 18th century from Serbo-Croatian plȕta, when it still had this form in Croatian and not like now after twentieth-century schisms plȕto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plùːta/

### Noun

plúta f
* cork, the bast of the cork oak

#### Inflection
### References

* “pluta”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
* Snoj, Marko (2016) “plúta”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si