Etymology

platan

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Today it means: A planetree. Full definition →

Latin platanus ← Middle French platane
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The story

  1. Middle French · derived fromplatane
  2. Latin · borrowed fromplatanus
  3. English todayplatan

Borrowed from Latin platanus; later reborrowed from Middle French platane.

Words from the same roots

Latinplatanus all →

planeplantain

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.