platten

See also: Platten, plätten, and platen

English

Etymology

See plat (“flat”, adjective).

Verb

platten (third-person singular simple present plattens, present participle plattening, simple past and past participle plattened)

1. (transitive, glassmaking) To flatten and make into sheets or plates.

   to platten cylinder glass

References

• “platten”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Adjective

platten

1. inflection of platt:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Luxembourgish

Adjective

platten

1. inflection of platt:
   1. strong/weak nominative/accusative masculine singular
   2. weak dative masculine/neuter singular
   3. strong/weak dative plural

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pletten

Etymology

From Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, to give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *platjaną (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”) (whence Dutch pletteren), German platzen (“to burst, split, break up, bounce”), Swedish plätta (“to tap, pat”). Compare Old English plætt (“slap, smack, a sounding blow”). See pat.

Verb

platten

1. (transitive) to strike with the hand; to slap
   • c. 1380, Piers Plowman (A):

     Peronelle Proude-herte platte hir to the erthe,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Swedish

Noun

platten

1. definite singular of platt