platessa

 

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From Late Latin platessa.

platessa f (plural platesse)

1. plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)

• platessa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• salpaste, spalaste

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /plaˈtes.sa/, [pɫ̪äˈt̪ɛs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /plaˈtes.sa/, [pläˈt̪ɛsːä]

platessa f (genitive platessae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) flatfish, plaice

First-declension noun.

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