Where does “plan” come from?
Plan comes from French plan, from Latin planta, from Ancient Greek πλάνος, from Latin planum, from Ancient Greek πλάνος, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- or pleh₂-.
plan (English): A drawing showing technical details of a...
Definitions
- A drawing showing technical details of a...
Ancestry of “plan”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | plan | plan; map; plane |
| 2 | French | plain | plane |
| 3 | Old French | plain | full; plain; flat |
| 4 | Latin | plēnus | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | plēnos | full |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pl̥h₁nós | full |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₁- | to fill |
Words derived from “plan”