planta

Spanish

noun
Definitions
  • plant organism of the kingdom Plantae
  • plant factory
  • floor, level of a high building
  • sole bottom of a shoe or boot
  • (anatomy) sole

Etymology

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

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂

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