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Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

1. (declension-3, feminine) dish, platter, plate
2. (declension-3, feminine) scalepan

Έννοιες

’piato

Συνώνυμα

patella

patina

scutella

catīnus

Μεταφράσεις

prato

plate

dish

plat

schotel

Schüssel

plato

fuente

طبق

piatto

plat

scale

cup

Tasse

bowl

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

[ˈɫaŋks]

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Compare Ancient Greek λέκος (lékos, “dish, pan”), λεκάνη (lekánē, “basin, dish”) (whence English lecanomancy). Walde and Hoffmann, and Pokorny, suppose these words inherited from PIE and connected with words meaning "crooked", such as Latin licinus (“bent upward”), luxus (“dislocated”); the root Pokorny assigns is, in updated reconstruction, Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend, to turn”). De Vaan objects on phonological and semantic grounds (plates are not crooked) and favours Ernout and Meillet's assumption that Greek and Latin instead share a Mediterranean cultural loanword from substrate languages.