Etymograph

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Platz

Platz comes from German Platz ‘square, plaza, piazza’, and goes back to Ancient Greek πλατεῖα.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπλατεῖα
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEplatēa
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400place
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350plaz
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentPlatz‘square, plaza, piazza’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2007same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπλατεῖα
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEplatēa
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400place
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350plaz
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentPlatz‘square, plaza, piazza’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2007same form

Earliest quotation: 2007, Ann Platz, Queen Esther's Reflection: A Portrait of Grace: “Lilly loves everything about John Platz! He feeds her,…”

Linked words

through Latin platēa

plaza, piazza, 7 more

through Old French place

displacement, 5 more

Today it means

name A surname from German.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Ancient Greek πλατεῖα / Platz

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