"plan" in seven languages
Meaningplan
Spanish
/plan/
masc.borrowed · French plan
French
/plɑ̃/
masc.learned
Its history is disputed: a learned form of PLĀNUS 'flat', probably crossed with plant (from planter). The inherited form is plain, as in de plain-pied 'on one level'.
Italian
/ˈpjano/
masc.inherited
Also 'floor, storey' and the instrument. Progetto is common for 'project, plan'.
Portuguese
/ˈplɐ̃nu/
masc.learned
The inherited PLĀNUM is chão 'ground': PL- → ch-, and -n- dropped.
Romanian
/plan/
neut.borrowed · French plan
Catalan
/pla/
masc.inherited
Pla is also 'flat' and 'plain'; the 'plan' sense follows French plan.
English
/plæn/
from Latin/French · French plan
The Latin ancestor
PLĀNUM‘flat, level (surface)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A plan was first a flat drawing of a building. Italian shows the regular pl → pi (piano), so its 'plan' is the same word as the floor and the pianoforte.
English relatives: plane, plain, explain, piano
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In a sentence
- es¿Cuál es el plan para mañana?
- frQuel est le plan pour demain ?
- itQual è il piano per domani?
- ptQual é o plano para amanhã?
- roCare e planul pentru mâine?
- caQuin és el pla per a demà?
- enWhat's the plan for tomorrow?
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