platonic

See also: Platonic and platònic

English

Alternative forms

• Platonic
• Platonick
• platonick

Etymology

Variant of Platonic, which see. The sense “non-sexual” dates to the 17th century in English, and to the 15th century in Latin; see platonic love for details.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pləˈtɒnɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /pləˈtɔnɪk/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /pləˈtɑnɪk/

Adjective

platonic (comparative more platonic, superlative most platonic)

1. Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.

   They are good friends, but their relationship is strictly platonic.

2. Alternative letter-case form of Platonic (of or relating to the philosophical views of Plato and his successors).
   • 1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     Plato gave so brilliant and impressive a defense of this common human feeling, that the doctrine of the reality of abstract objects has been known as the platonic theory of ideas ever since.

Antonyms

• romantic, sexual

Derived terms

• platonically
• platonic love
• queerplatonic

 

Translations

not sexual in nature

• Arabic: أَفْلَاطُونِيّ (ʔaflāṭōniyy)
• Belarusian: платані́чны (plataníčny)
• Bulgarian: платоничен (platoničen)
• Catalan: platònic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柏拉圖式／柏拉图式

• Czech: platonický m
• Danish: platonisk
• Estonian: platooniline
• Finnish: platoninen (fi)
• French: platonique (fr)
• Georgian: პლატონური (ṗlaṭonuri)
• German: platonisch (de)
• Greek: πλατωνικός (el) m (platonikós)
• Hungarian: plátói (hu)
• Icelandic: lostalaus m, platónskur m, andlegur (is) m, háleitur m, laus við holdlega fýsn m
• Irish: platónach
• Persian: افلاطونی (fa) (aflâtuni)
• Polish: platoniczny (pl)
• Portuguese: platónico (pt) (Portugal), platônico (pt) (Brazil)
• Russian: платони́ческий (ru) (platoníčeskij)
• Slovak: platonický
• Spanish: platónico (es)
• Ukrainian: платоні́чний (platoníčnyj)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: platonisch (nl)

Anagrams

• platicon

Occitan

Pronunciation

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Adjective

platonic m (feminine singular platonica, masculine plural platonics, feminine plural platonicas)

1. platonic

Related terms

• Platon

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French platonique. By surface analysis, Platon +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaˈto.nik/

Adjective

platonic m or n (feminine singular platonică, masculine plural platonici, feminine and neuter plural platonice)

1. platonic

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	platonic		platonică		platonici	platonice
	definite	platonicul		platonica		platonicii	platonicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	platonic		platonice		platonici	platonice
	definite	platonicului		platonicei		platonicilor	platonicelor

Related terms

• Platon

Further reading

• platonic in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)