English
platform
Platform comes from Middle French plateforme ‘a flat form’, from plate ‘flat’ + forme ‘form’.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600plateforme‘a flat form’
- Englishearliest quotation 1577platform
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600plateforme‘a flat form’
- Englishearliest quotation 1577platform
Earliest quotation: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England: “His destruction intended by queene Quendred, hir platforme of…”
Linked words
through Ancient Greek πλατύς ‘flat’
plane, plate, platinum, plaice, 4 more
through Old French plat ‘flat’
Today it means
noun A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French plateforme / platform