plater - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

• Beginning
• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
    * 1.3.2 Translations
  • 1.4 Anagrams
• 2 Basque
  • 2.1 Etymology
  • 2.2 Pronunciation
  • 2.3 Noun
    * 2.3.1 Declension
  • 2.4 Further reading
• 3 Middle English
  • 3.1 Alternative forms
  • 3.2 Etymology
  • 3.3 Pronunciation
  • 3.4 Noun
    * 3.4.1 Descendants
    * 3.4.2 References
• 4 Norwegian Bokmål
  • 4.1 Noun
• 5 Norwegian Nynorsk
  • 5.1 Noun
• 6 Old French
  • 6.1 Noun
    * 6.1.1 Descendants
  • 6.2 References
• 7 Polabian
  • 7.1 Etymology
  • 7.2 Noun
  • 7.3 References

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From plate +‎ -er.

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

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.

• electroplater

• L-plater

• P-plater

• selling-plater

• tin-plater

• Alpert, palter, replat

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• IPA(key): /plateɾ/ [pla.t̪er]
• Rhymes: -ateɾ, -eɾ
• Hyphenation: pla‧ter

plater inan

1. plate
2. dish

• “plater”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “plater”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
• platere, platir, platyr, platter

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

• IPA(key): /plaˈtɛːr/, /ˈplatər/

plater (plural platers)

1. platter

• English: platter
• Scots: plaeter
• Yola: plathearès, platheares (plural)
• “plater, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

plater m or f

1. indefinite plural of plate

plater f

1. indefinite plural of plate

plater oblique singular, m (oblique plural platers, nominative singular platers, nominative plural **plater)

1. platter (serving plate)

• → English: platter
• plater on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Borrowed from Middle Low German plattêr.

plater m ?

1. dish

• 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

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• Rhymes:English/eɪtə(ɹ)
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