plasta
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plasta m (plural plastes)
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Etymology edit
From plasto (“plastic”) + -a (adjectival suffix).
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plasta (accusative singular plastan, plural plastaj, accusative plural plastajn)
- plastic (made of plastic)
- 2007, Tatjana Auderskaja, “Iom pri nuntempa ekologio”, in Kontakto, number 221, →ISSN, page 3:
- Ĉu ni ne loĝas jam en domoj kun plastaj mebloj, plastaj fenestroj, plastaj tapetoj, plasta manĝilaro?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2015, Sten Johansson, Skabio (Serio originala literaturo), New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 10:
- Oni donis al li plastan tason da akvo, sed li jam delonge eltrinkis tiun.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2017 June, Mikaelo Bronŝtejn, “Grenado”, in Probal Daŝgupto, István Ertl, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Suso Moinhos, editors, Beletra Almanako, year II, number 29, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 9:
- Peĉjo kaj Ninjo, la plej junaj klubanoj, alportis el la kuirĉambro bolantan samovaron, teujon kun freŝa infuzaĵo kaj kuketojn, dismetitajn en du plastajn telerojn.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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- plast m
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Plaste, East German variant of Plastik, from English plastic, from Ancient Greek πλαστικός (plastikós, “suitable for molding”).
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plasta f inan
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Declension of plasta
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- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “plasta”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
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plasta (Cyrillic spelling пласта)
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Etymology edit
From plaste, from Ancient Greek πλαστή (plastḗ), from πλαστός (plastós, “artificial; false, fictitious”); from the same source as πλᾰστῐκός (plastikós), whence English plastic. Compare English plastid.
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plasta f (plural plastas)
- lump, soft mass of matter (usually soft, thick and sticky)
- 2022, Lisandro N. C. Urquiza, Tomás y Mateo. Una nueva vida:
- una plasta de dulce de leche a las gafas. Y otra del talón.
- A lump of dulce de leche on his glasses. Another on his heel.
- flattened object
- plasticine, modelling clay
- (colloquial) piece of shit; turd (something of low quality)
- (colloquial) annoying or stupid person
- 1986, José Luis Olaizola, Senén:
- Sobre todo los directivos del club que me visitaban –¡menuda plasta!–, me golpeaban un hombro y me decían: –No te preocupes, que al golf puedes jugar.
- All the directors of the club that visited, those slimeballs,patted me on the shoulder and told me "Don't worry, you can always play golf".
- 2019, Juan Francisco Polo, Unas cuantas calles:
- —¡Qué plasta eres, tío! Si has echado toda la mascá fuera, me has dejado a dos velas.
- You're such a dumb-ass, dude! You spilled all the baccy out, left me with fuck all!
- (colloquial) bore, dullard
- ¡Menuda plasta es la fiesta!
- This party is such a snoozefest!
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Further reading edit
- “plasta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili edit
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Borrowed from English plaster.
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Audio (Kenya) (file)
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plasta (n class, plural plasta)
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plasta