Where does “plants” come from?
Plants comes from Middle English plante, Old English plante, Latin planta, Proto-Italic plāntā, and Proto-Indo-European pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, ultimately from the root pleh₂-.
plants (English): plural of plant; Third-person singular simple...
Definitions
- plural of plant; Third-person singular simple...
Ancestry of “plants”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | plant | An organism that is not an animal, especially an... |
| 2 | Middle English | plante | — |
| 3 | Old English | plante | plant, shoot |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *plantu | plant, shoot |
| 5 | Latin | planta | any vegetable production that serves to propagate... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | plāntā | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂ | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₂- | flat |