platessa

== Italian == === Etymology === From Late Latin platessa. === Noun === platessa f (plural platesse) plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) === Further reading === platessa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana === Anagrams === salpaste, spalaste == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɫaˈtɛs.sa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [plaˈtɛs.sa] === Noun === platessa f (genitive platessae); first declension (Late Latin) flatfish, plaice ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “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.