planche
French
noun
Definitions
- board
- spread (picture covering a whole page)
- plank
- woodcut
- board (used for sport, e.g. skateboard or surfboard)
- (figuratively) plank, beanpole (very thin person)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French planche inherited from Latin planca (board, slab), phalanga (pole for carrying things, wooden roller, roller pole for moving heavy objects, roller, pole) derived from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (battle order, array, log, etc, body of soldiers, trunk, phalanx, battle array, stem).
Origin
Ancient Greek
φάλαγξ
Gloss
battle order, array, log, etc, body of soldiers, trunk, phalanx, battle array, stem
Kanji
茎
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gangplank English
- planche English
- planchette English
- plank English
- plankboard English
- planker English
- planking English
- plankless English
- planklike English
- plankway English
- plankwise English
- replank English
- *palanga Latin
- palanca Latin
- phalanga Latin
- phalangem Latin
- phalangem, phalanx Latin
- phalanx Latin
- planca Latin
- Planke German
- palánk Hungarian
- falanghina Italian
- phalange French
- planchette French
- planchiste French
- планка Russian
- планшет Russian
- фаланга Russian
- palanca Spanish, Castilian
- plancha Spanish, Castilian
- planchar Spanish, Castilian
- planchazo Spanish, Castilian
- planchear Spanish, Castilian
- φάλαγξ Ancient Greek
- φαλάγγιον Ancient Greek
- φᾰ́λᾰγγᾰ, φάλαγξ Ancient Greek
- φᾰ́λᾰγξ Ancient Greek
- *bʰelǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- prancha Portuguese
- falanga Polish
- plansza Polish
- planszówka Polish
- plank Middle English
- falang Irish
- planche Danish
- planš Czech
- planche Old French
- φάλαγγα Greek (modern)
- plantsa Cebuano
- փաղանգ Old Armenian
- planko Ido
- plianche Norman
- plantsa Tagalog
- pleng Albanian
- planke Middle Low German
- palanca Occitan
- llancha Asturian
- palanca Old Occitan
- plangk Tok Pisin
- pjancura Dalmatian
- plantsa Bikol Central
- planke ONF.
- planque ONF.
- parensa Yogad