Translation
dish, platter; dish (a prepared food), course
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Word origin
From German Platte and French plat, both from a late Latin plattus, flat, which itself came from Greek platys. The word travelled as a piece of kitchen equipment and picked up the sense of the food on it along the way.
- Origin
- German and French
- Root
- plattus
- English cognates
- platter, plate, plateau
Examples
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She put a large dish on the table.
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The main course was fish with rice.
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Every guest brought a dish to the party.
Three near-identical words, three different objects, and it is worth fixing them now. A is the plate you eat off. A is the big serving dish that goes in the middle of the table, and by the ordinary extension it is also what is on it: is the main course, a national dish. A is a flat slab of something - a metal sheet, a paving stone, a record. The shared idea is flatness, but only belongs to food, and is the one English speakers reach for by mistake because it looks like "plate".
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 10: plado, vulpo, gliti and 7 more words.