pluta

See also: Pluta and plută

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Polish płeć (“gender, originally: skin”)[1][2] and Russian плоть (plotʹ, “flesh”).

Pronunciation

  • (plutà) IPA(key): [pɫʊˈt̪ɐ]
  • (plùta) IPA(key): [ˈpɫʊt̪ɐ]

Noun

plutà f (plural plùtos) stress pattern 4 [3]

  1. rind[4] (especially of bread)
  2. (figuratively) something hard and covering another things; crust
    Žemės pluta - Earth's crust

Declension

Synonyms

  • luoba

Derived terms

  • (diminutive noun) plutẽlė

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “płeć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, published 1985, page 421
  2. ↑ http://sjp.pwn.pl/poradnia/haslo/plec;14277.html
  3. ↑ “pluta” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  4. ↑ “pluta” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
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