The story
- Italian · derived frompiastrone
- French · borrowed fromplastron
- English todayplastron
Borrowed from French plastron, from Italian piastrone, augmentive of piastra (“breastplate”), from Latin emplastrum (“plaster”), from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron), from ἔμπλαστος (émplastos, “daubed, plastered”), from ἔμπλασσειν (émplassein, “to mould, form”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.