The story
- Latin · derived fromplantāre“set, fix in place”
- French · derived fromplant
- Latin · derived fromplānus
- French · borrowed fromplan“flat surface, ground plot, map”
- English todayplan
Borrowed from French plan (“flat surface, ground plot, map”), from Latin plānus. Some sources also argue for influence or alteration of French plant, from plantar, from Latin plantāre (“set, fix in place”). Doublet of llano, piano, plane, and plain.
Words from the same roots
Latinplānus all →
plainplanarplani-planishplanular
Latinplantāre all →
plant
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.