plater

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English

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Etymology

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From plate +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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plater (plural platers)

  1. Someone who plates metal.
  2. Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items.
  3. A machine for calendering paper.
  4. (biology) A device for depositing cells on a plate.
  5. (horse-racing) A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.
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Basque

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /plater/, [pla.t̪e̞r]

Noun

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plater inan

  1. plate
  2. dish

Declension

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel; equivalent to plate +‎ -el.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /plaˈtɛːr/, /ˈplatər/

Noun

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plater (plural platers)

  1. platter

Descendants

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  • English: platter
  • Scots: plaeter
  • Yola: plathearès, platheares (plural)

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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plater m or f

  1. indefinite plural of plate

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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plater f

  1. indefinite plural of plate

Old French

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Noun

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plater oblique singularm (oblique plural platers, nominative singular platers, nominative plural plater)

  1. platter (serving plate)

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Polabian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle Low German plattêr.

Noun

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plater m ?

  1. dish

References

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    Polański, Kazimierz (1976) “plater”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 4 (perĕt – ŕotťǝ), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 527
  • Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “plater”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 111
  • Olesch, Reinhold (1971) “Plattêr”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 2: P – S, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 779