Plato

Via Latin Plato, from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn), from πλατύς (platús, “broad, wide”), either because of Plato's robust body, or wide forehead or the breadth of his eloquence.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪ.təʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪ.toʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

Plato

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1993, Nina Bawden, The Real Plato Jones, Houghton Miffin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 1:

     My name is Plato Jones. Plato Constantine Jones. Plato because my mother is Greek, and Jones because my father is Welsh, and Constantine after his father, my grandfather, who is Constantine Llewellyn Jones.

   1. The Greek philosopher, 427–347 BC, follower of Socrates.

• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Plethon
• Pythagoras
• Socrates

• “Plato”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Plato”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Plato”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Plato”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Plato”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Plato, britannica.com
• Plato, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Wikisource:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Plato
• Wikisource:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Plato and Platonism

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• Platōn

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.toː/, [ˈpɫ̪ät̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.to/, [ˈpläːt̪o]

Platō m sg (genitive Platōnis); third declension

1. Plato, a Greek philosopher

   Lēctitāvisse Platōnem studiōsē.

   To have often read Plato zealously.

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• English: Plato

• “Plato”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Plato in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.