platan

See also: plàtan, plâtan, and platån

English

Alternative forms

• platane [16th–19th c.]

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin platanus; later reborrowed from Middle French platane.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈplat(ə)n/

Noun

platan (plural platans)

1. (now rare, literary) A planetree.
   • 1633, John Donne, The Autumnall:

     Xerxes strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, / Was lov'd for age, none being so large as shee [...].

   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     A double hill ran up his furrowy forks / Beyond the thick-leaved platans of the vale.

Anagrams

• Patlan, planta

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• platanu

Etymology

From Greek πλάτανος (plátanos). Compare the doublet paltin. Cf. also Romanian platan.

Noun

platan m (plural platanj)

1. plane tree

Synonyms

• paltin