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prato.

plate

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpɾa.tu/Brazil/ˈpɾa.tu/Portugal
  1. plate a flat dish from which food is served or eaten

    masculine
  2. plate a course at a meal

    masculine
  3. cymbal

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese prato, a semi-learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin *plattus, borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide; broad”), from Proto-Hellenic *plətús, from Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us, from *pleth₂- + *-us. Doublet of the popularly inherited chato and the Hellenism plati-.

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