Borrowed from Latin planta (“sole of the foot”). Doublet of clan and plant.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈplæn.tə/

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planta (plural plantae)

1. (anatomy) The sole of the foot.

• plantar

• planta genista

• Patlan, platan

Borrowed from Latin planta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplanta/ [ˈplãn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: plan‧ta

planta f (plural plantes)

1. (botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae)
2. sole of the foot
3. sole of a shoe
4. storey; floor
5. plant (industry)

• plantar

• IPA^(key): /planta/ [plãn̪.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -anta, -a
• Hyphenation: plan‧ta

planta inan

1. aspect

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• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈplan.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈplan.ta]

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• Rhymes: -anta
• Hyphenation: plan‧ta

Inherited from Old Catalan planta, from Latin planta, from Proto-Italic *plāntā, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”).

planta f (plural plantes)

1. (botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae)
2. sole (of a shoe or foot- see planta del peu)
3. physical aspect or impression of a person
4. level, storey or floor of a building
5. bottom part or foundation of a building

planta

1. inflection of plantar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “planta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “planta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “planta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “planta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Borrowed from Spanish planta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplanta/ [ˈpl̪an̪.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Hyphenation: plan‧ta

planta (Badlit spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. plant (factory)

From Latin planta.

• IPA^(key): [ˈplan̥ta]
• Rhymes: -an̥ta
• Homophone: plantað

planta f (genitive singular plantu, plural plantur)

1. plant

planta (third person singular past indicative plantaði, third person plural past indicative plantaðu, supine plantað)

1. to plant

• IPA^(key): /plɑ̃.ta/

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planta

1. third-person singular past historic of planter

• lapant, planât

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese planta, from Latin planta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplanta/ [ˈplan̪.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Hyphenation: plan‧ta

planta f (plural plantas)

1. (botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae)
2. sole (of the foot)
3. storey; floor

   Synonym: andar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “planta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “planta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “planta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “planta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “planta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰlan̥ta/
• Rhymes: -an̥ta

Borrowed from Latin planta.

planta f (genitive singular plöntu, nominative plural plöntur)

1. (botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae)

planta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative plantaði, supine plantað)

1. to plant [with dative or (formerly) accusative]

• plantari

Inherited from Old Spanish planta (“plant”), from Latin planta, from Proto-Italic *plāntā, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”).

planta f (Hebrew spelling פלאנטה)^[1]

1. (botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae) [16th c.]
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[1], Nur Afakot, page 284:

     Sovre una pedana kon una mezika i siyas i una planta vedre estava el entervistador, ke estava entervistado los ke ivan a apareser en el programa.

     Over a footrest with a small round table, chairs, and a green plant was the interviewer, who was interviewing those who were to appear on the programme.

2. (anatomy) sole (plantar) [16th c.]
   • 1553, “Deuteronomio, II”, in Yom Tob Atías, Abraham Usque, transl., Biblia de Ferrara‎^[2], page 131:

     No vos combatays con ellos, que no daré à vos de ſu tierra haſta piſadura de planta de pie, que heredad à Eſau di à monte de Sehir.

     Contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

planta (Hebrew spelling פלאנטה)

1. third-person singular present indicative of plantar

Either:^[1]

• from Proto-Italic *plāntā, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
• from Proto-Italic *plānktā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂nk/gteh₂, from *pleh₂k-, *pleh₂g- (“to strike, fast”) (similar to *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach, fix, fasten”), whence the similarly meaning prōpāgō (“to propagate, extend, release”)). Cognate with plangō (“to strike, beat, flap”), Ancient Greek πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike, smite”).

The original meaning is "sole of the foot"; the meanings of the type "shoot of a plant, etc." are thought to belong to an originally separate word planta that was back-formed to an unattested verb *plantāre, which meant "to level the earth (with the sole of the foot)" or "to plant crops (with the sole of the foot)".

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɫan.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈplan.ta]

planta f (genitive plantae); first declension

1. any vegetable production that serves to propagate the species; a sprout, shoot, twig, sprig, sucker, graft, scion, slip, cutting
2. a young tree, a shrub that may be transplanted; a set
3. sole of the foot

First-declension noun.

• plantāgō
• plantō

• plantare
• plantarium
• plantatio
• plantiger

• “planta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “planta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• planta in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• planten (of noun)
• plantet (of verb)

planta m or f

1. definite feminine singular of plante

planta

1. inflection of plante:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

• IPA^(key): /²plɑntɑ/

From Old Norse planta, from Middle Low German [Term?], from Latin plantare. Akin to English plant.

• plante

planta (present tense plantar, past tense planta, past participle planta, passive infinitive plantast, present participle plantande, imperative planta/plant)

1. to plant

• planten

planta m or f

1. definite feminine singular of plante

• “planta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• planto (Mistralian)

Inherited from Old Occitan planta, from Latin planta.

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planta f (plural plantas)

1. (botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae)

Derived from Latin planta, from Proto-Italic *plāntā, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognate with Old Spanish planta.

planta f

1. (botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae)

• Galician: planta
• Portuguese: planta

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “planta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “planta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Derived from Latin planta, from Proto-Italic *plāntā, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese planta.

planta f (plural plantas)

1. (botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae)

   Hyponyms: arbol, arroz, avena, fava, gengibrante, lenteja, lino, malva, nabo, ortaliza, trigo, vid

• Ladino: planta, פלאנטה
• Spanish: planta

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “planta”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 396

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• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ
• Hyphenation: plan‧ta

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese planta, from Latin planta. Doublet of clã.

planta f (plural plantas)

1. (botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae)

   Synonym: vegetal

2. (architecture) floor plan (horizontal projection drawing of buildings, population clusters, etc.)

   Synonyms: diagrama, mapa, plano, projeto

3. topographic map
4. (informal) presentation

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

planta

1. inflection of plantar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “planta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “planta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “planta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• планта (planta) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Borrowed from French planter, from Latin planto. See also împlânta.

• IPA^(key): /planˈta/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: plan‧ta

a planta (third-person singular present plantează, past participle plantat) 1st conjugation

1. to plant

• implanta
• plantă

• plànta (Sutsilvan)
• plaunta (Puter)
• plonta (Sursilvan)

Inherited from Latin planta.

planta f (plural plantas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader, botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae)
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran) tree

   Synonyms: (Vallader) bos-ch, (Puter, Vallader) bös-ch

• IPA^(key): /ˈplanta/ [ˈplãn̪.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: plan‧ta

Inherited from Old Spanish planta (“plant”), from Latin planta, from Proto-Italic *plāntā, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”). Compare the now obsolete inherited form llanta.

planta f (plural plantas)

1. (botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae)
2. plant (factory)

   Synonym: fábrica

3. (architecture) floor, level (of a high building)

   Synonyms: piso, nivel

   Vivo en la primera planta

   I live on the first floor.

4. (anatomy) sole
5. (footwear) sole (bottom of a shoe or boot)

   Synonym: suela

planta

1. inflection of plantar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “planta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From Latin planta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplanˌta/, [ˈpl̪an̪ːˌt̪a]

planta c

1. (botany) plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae)

• “planta”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• planat

Borrowed from Spanish planta.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈplanta/ [ˈplan̪.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: plan‧ta

planta (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. plant (factory)

• halaman

• “planta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

• paltan, tanlap

From plant (“children”) +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplanta/

planta (first-person singular present plantaf)

1. to reproduce, to procreate

   Synonyms: cenhedlu, cynhyrchu, epilio

2. to breed

   Synonym: bridio

• cwd planta (“womb”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “planta”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “planta”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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