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/

• 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.

Derived terms

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

 

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: 柏かしわ拉ひしげ圖ず／柏かしわ拉ひしげ图 (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: 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)
• Ingrian: Platona
• Irish: Platón m
• Italian: Platone m
• Japanese: プラトン (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 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.
• “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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn).

Pronunciation

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

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.

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

Related terms

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