# plata
## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide”), because silver was often made into sheets.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈplata/
* Rhymes: -ata
* Syllabification: pla‧ta

### Noun

plata f (plural platas)
* silver
    Synonym: archent

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide”), because silver was often made into sheets.

### Noun

plata f (plural plates)
* silver

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish plata.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈplata/ [ˈpl̪a.ta]
* Hyphenation: pla‧ta

### Noun

pláta (Basahan spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜆ)
* silver
    Synonym: pirak

#### Related terms

* plato

## Catalan
### Etymology

From the feminine of plat, or from Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide”), because silver was often made into sheets.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpla.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpla.ta]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)

### Noun

plata f (uncountable)
* silver
* platter

#### Synonyms

* (metal): argent
* (serving dish): plàtera

#### Derived terms

* platejar

#### Related terms

* plat
* platí

### Further reading

* “plata” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “plata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “plata” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “plata” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”), from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”). Compare Italian piatto, Swedish and German platt, Portuguese and Spanish chato, as well as English plat (“plot of land”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈplata]
* Rhymes: -ata
* Hyphenation: pla‧ta
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

plata (accusative singular platan, plural plataj, accusative plural platajn)
* flat

#### Derived terms

* plateta (“slightly flat”)
* platega (“very flat”)
* platigi (“to flatten”)
* platiĝi (“to become flat”)

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈplata/ [ˈpla.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ata
* Hyphenation: pla‧ta

### Noun

plata f (plural platas)
* plate (photographic)

## Gothic
### Romanization

plata
* Romanization of 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌰

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpʰlaːta/
* Rhymes: -aːta

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

plata f (genitive singular plötu, nominative plural plötur)
* plate (thin, flat object)
* record (vinyl disc)

##### Declension
#### References

* Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
* Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “plata”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
* Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
* “plata” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Danish plade (“fraud; betrayal”). Compare German Plattenschlager (“trickster”), Old Norse plattoslagari, Old Danish pladeslager, also Swedish plåt (“currency”), Danish platte (“coin; counterfeiter”), platte and plade (“to counterfeit”).

#### Noun

plata f (genitive singular plötu, nominative plural plötur)
* (colloquial) trick
    Synonym: plat n
    slá e-m plötu ― play a trick on someone

##### Declension
#### Verb

plata (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative plataði, supine platað)
* (colloquial) to trick, deceive, play a trick

##### Conjugation
#### See also

* plat

#### References

* Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
* Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “plata”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
* Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
* “plata” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Platte

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpla.ta/
* Rhymes: -ata
* Syllabification: pla‧ta

### Noun

plata f
* plate, tile (sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces)
    Synonym: fliza
* (technology) disk, CD, CD-ROM, DVD, etc.

### Further reading

* Jan Trepczyk (1994) Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2, page płyta
* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “płyta”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

## Latvian
### Adjective

plata
* inflection of plats:
** genitive singular masculine
** nominative singular feminine

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* platen

### Noun

plata m or f
* definite feminine singular of plate

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

plata f
* definite singular of plate

## Romanian
### Noun

plata
* definite nominative/accusative singular of plată

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* pláća (Croatia)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plǎːta/
* Hyphenation: pla‧ta

### Noun

pláta f (Cyrillic spelling пла́та)
* (Bosnia, Serbia) pay

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide”), because silver was often made into sheets. As with plato, this word may be semi-learned or avoided certain phonetic changes due to use by mainly the upper classes. Compare Portuguese prata, Catalan plata. Displaced Old Spanish ariento from Latin argentum. Compare English plate.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈplata/ [ˈpla.t̪a]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ata
* Syllabification: pla‧ta

### Adjective

plata m or f (masculine and feminine plural platas)
* (heraldry) argent
    Synonym: blanco

### Noun

plata f (plural platas)
* silver
    Synonym: argento (poetic)
* (Latin America) money, dough
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinero

#### Derived terms

* a enemigo que huye, puente de plata
* adiós mi plata
* bodas de plata
* como una plata
* ducado de plata
* edad de plata
* en plata
* gol de plata
* maestre de plata
* maravedí de plata
* medalla de plata
* papel de plata
* pececillo de plata
* plata de piña
* plata o plomo
* puente de plata
* real de plata
* Río de la Plata
* siglo de plata
* tacita de plata

#### Related terms

* plato

#### Descendants

* → Ye'kwana: jüdata

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “plata”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “plata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch plat.

### Adjective

plata
* flat

#### Descendants

* → Aukan: paata
* → Caribbean Javanese: platah
* → Saramaccan: paáta

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish plata.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈplata/ [ˈplaː.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ata
* Syllabification: pla‧ta

### Noun

plata (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜆ) (literary)
* silver
    Synonym: pilak
* silver coin

#### See also

* pera

### Anagrams

* lapat, tapal