Where does “Plato” come from?
Plato derives from Latin Plato, from Ancient Greek Πλάτων, likely a nickname from Ancient Greek πλατύς meaning "broad," traced to Proto-Indo-European pléth₂us and the root pleth₂-.
Ancestry of “Plato”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancient Greek | Πλάτων | Plato |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | -ών | forms words for places |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -ónts | Derives nouns denoting body parts |
| 4 | Hungarian | önt | to pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön |
| 5 | Hungarian | ön | you |
| 6 | Hungarian | ön- | self- |
| 7 | Turkish | ön | front |
| 8 | Ottoman Turkish | اوك | voice (of human or animal); sound |
| 9 | Proto-Turkic | ǖn | sound, voice |