Where does “Plat” come from?

Plat (Luxembourgish) comes from French plat, from Middle French plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς, from Proto-Indo-European pléth₂us, from Proto-Indo-European pleth₂- — flat.

Plat (Luxembourgish): platter, plate flat, fairly large piece of crockery

Definitions

  1. platter, plate flat, fairly large piece of crockery

Ancestry of “Plat”, step by step

Plat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French plat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchplatflat; a flat area of ground; a flat thing; a flat...
2Middle Frenchplatflat
3Old Frenchplata footbridge
4Vulgar Latinplattusflattened; flat; smooth
5Ancient Greekπλατύςwide, broad; flat, level; broad-shouldered
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpléth₂usflat, broad
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpleth₂-flat

via Middle High German platte

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanplatte
2Old High Germanplatta
3Vulgar Latinplattametal plate
4Latinplattusflattened
Every word from Proto-Indo-European pleth₂-Every word from Proto-Indo-European pléth₂usEvery word from Ancient Greek πλατύς