planta

Catalan

noun
Definitions
  • plant
  • sole (of a shoe or foot- see planta del peu)
  • physical aspect or impression of a person
  • level, storey or floor of a building
  • bottom part or foundation of a building

Etymology

Inherited from Old Occitan planta inherited from Latin planta (shoot, sole of the foot, sprout, offspring, twig, plant, cutting, a shoot, a young tree n-g, a sprout) inherited from Proto-Italic *plāntā inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂

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