## Meanings
1. A flat, slightly curved dish that you eat food from.
2. The amount of food on such a dish.
3. A flat, thin piece of metal or other hard material.
4. To cover a metal object with a thin layer of another metal.

## Examples
- I filled my plate from the table.
- I ate a plate of beans.
- The most expensive part of a solar cell is a thin silicon plate.
- They plate the spoons with silver.

## Derived Forms
- armplate
- autoplate
- backplate
- baseplate
- bedplate
- blue-plate
- bodyplate
- boilerplate
- bookplate
- breastplate
- brest-plate
- buttplate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: plate
- Root: plata
- Root: *plattus
- Root: πλατύς

## Etymology
From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato. (foot): Cockney rhyming slang, from "plates of meat" for "feet".

## AI Etymology
Plate comes from Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato. (foot): Cockney rhyming slang, from "plates of meat" for "feet". In present-day English it covers a flat, slightly curved dish that you eat food from, the amount of food on such a dish, and a flat, thin piece of metal or other hard material. The wider family includes derived forms such as armplate, autoplate, backplate, baseplate, bedplate.

## Topics
- Food & Drink
- Materials & Substances

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