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Platonic
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platonic platònic
English
Alternative forms
en platonic platonick Platonick
Etymology
From en la Platōnicus. en Platon Plato -ic relating to.
Pronunciation
en /pləˈtɒnɪk/
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Adjective
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Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.
en platonic non-sexual.
en 1981 w:William Irwin Thompson The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture Rider/Hutchinson & Co. London 193 The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world.
Derived terms
en antiplatonic Platonic solid Platonic hydrocarbon Platonic dialogue Neoplatonic Platonic year Platonic body Platonically Platonic ideal
Related terms
en Plato Platonical Platonism Platonist Platonistic
Translations
related to Plato
Arabic: ar أَفْلَاطُونِيّ
Armenian: hy
Catalan: ca platònic
Czech: cs platónský
Estonian: et platooniline
Finnish: fi platonilainen
French: fr platonicien
Georgian: ka პლატონური
German: de platonisch
Greek: el πλατωνικός
Ancient Greek: grc Πλατωνικός
Hungarian: hu
Ido: io Platonala
Irish: ga Platónach
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb platonsk
Nynorsk: nn platonsk
Polish: pl platoński
Russian: ru
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh пла̀то̄нскӣ
Latin: sh plàtōnskī
Slovak: sk platónsky
Spanish: es platónico
Yiddish: yi פּלאַטאָניש
Noun
A Platonist; a follower of Plato's ideas.
A Platonic solid.
Anagrams
en acilnopt platicon
en eponyms relational adjectives
en Philosophy