Dictionaries › Greek

πλάκα

“πλάκα” is a Greek word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. slab, bar, sheet, tablet (piece of material with uniform cross-section)
  2. paving slab, flagstone
  3. slab of concrete forming horizontal component of a building
  4. tectonic plate (part of the lithosphere)
  5. plaque
  6. joke

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek πλάξ (pláx), from the accusative reanalyzed as a nominative.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “πλάκα” there

More Greek words

About this dictionary

The Greek dictionary on Glottosphere has 27,508 entries with a page. Browse the Greek dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.