Latvian

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Adjective

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platus

  1. accusative plural masculine of plats

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *platús, from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from the root *pleth₂-.[1][2][3]

Cognates include Latvian plats, Old Prussian plat- (from a placename, Platmedyen, where median = “forest”), Sanskrit पृथु (pṛthu, broad, wide, great, powerful), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, broad, wide, flat, smooth)

Adjective

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platùs m (feminine platì) stress pattern 4

  1. broad, wide
    Synonym: erdvùs
    Antonyms: siaũras, añkštas
    Hypernym: dìdelis

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “platus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362
  2. ^ platùs” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 906 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
  3. ^ platus”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

Further reading

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  • platus”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • platus”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024