A.“πλατέα” Hdt.2.156: acc. pl. fem. “πλατέας” PMag.Par.1.1086:—wide, broad, “τελαμών” Il.5.796; “πτύον” 13.588; αἰπόλια πλατέ᾽ αἰγῶν broad herds, i.e. large or spread over a wide space, 2.474, Od.14.101, Hes.Th.445; “π. πρόσοδοι” Pi.N.6.45; “ὁδοί” X.Cyr. 1.6.43, IG22.380.20; τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν π. Broad Street, SIG57.27 (Milet., v B.C.); similarly, “π. ὁδὸς τῶν θεῶν” PStrassb.85.22 (ii B.C.) (cf. infr. 11); “κιβώτιον π.” IG12.330.20; “τάφρος ὡς πλατυτάτη καὶ βαθυτάτη” X. Cyr.7.5.9.
2. flat, level, “χῶρος π. καὶ πολλός” Hdt.4.39; “πλατυτάτης . . γῆς οὔσης Θετταλίας” X.HG6.1.9; “πότερον ἡ γῆ π. ἐστιν ἢ στρογγύλη” Pl.Phd.97d; κάρυα τὰ π., i.e. chestnuts, Hp.Vict.2.55, Diocl.Fr.126, X.An.5.4.29; σελάχη, ἰχθύες, Arist.HA489b31, PA695b7; “ποτήρια πλατέα, τοίχους οὐκ ἔχοντ᾽” Pherecr.143.2.
3. of a man, broad-shouldered, “οὐ γὰρ οἱ πλατεῖς, οὐδ᾽ εὐρύνωτοι” S.Aj.1250, cf. UPZ121.19 (ii B.C.).
4. of seasons, far advanced, ἔαρ Procl.ad Hes.Op.483.
5. metaph., π. ὅρκος a broad strong oath, Emp.30.3, cf. 115.2; κατάγελως π. flat (i.e. downright) mockery, Ar.Ach.1126; π. φλήναφος Amelius ap.Porph. Plot.17, 18; but πλατὺ γελάσαι, καταγελᾶν, laugh loud and rudely, Philostr.VA7.39, VS1.20.2; “καταχρεμψαμένη πλατύ” Ar.Pax 815, cf. Luc.Cat.12.
6. broad, of pronunciation, “π. λέξις” Hermog. Id.1.6; “φωνή” Poll.2.116; “πλατέα λαλοῦσι πάντα οἱ Δωριεῖς” Demetr. Eloc.177.
7. diffuse, “λέξις” D.H.Dem.19. Adv. -έως ibid.: Comp. -ύτερον in fuller detail, “διαλεξόμεθα” S.E.P.2.219, cf. Sor.2.5, Hdn.2.15.6; -υτέρως Tz.ad Lyc.177: Sup. “-υτάτως” Id.H.12.890.
II. Subst. πλατεῖα (sc. ὁδός, cf.S.E.P.1.188, and v.supr.1.1), ἡ, street, Philem.58, Herod. 6.53, OGI491.9 (Pergam.), LXXGe.19.2, D.S.17.52, Str.17.1.10, Ev.Matt.12.19; “οἱ ἐν τῇ Σκυτικῇ π. τεχνεῖται” IGRom.4.790, cf. 791, al. (Apamea); hence Σεβαστὴ π. name of a guild, ib.3.711 (Sura); “ἡ ἱερωτάτη π.” CIG3960b6 (Apamea).
b. (sc. χείρ) flat of the hand, “ταῖσι πλατείαις τυπτόμενος” Ar.Ra.1096; “πλατείᾳ τῇ χειρί” Philum.Ven. 5.3.
c. a kind of dish or cup, IG11(2).110.22, al. (Delos, iii B.C.).
d. broad stripe or border, Demetr.Eloc.108.
III. salt, brackish, “πλατυτέροισι ἐχρέωντο τοῖσι πόμασι” Hdt.2.108; πλατέα or πλατύτερα ὕδατα, Arist.Mete.358b4, 358a28 (but “πλατὺς Ἑλλήσποντος” Il.7.86, 17.432, is not the salt, but the broad, Hellespont, cf. A. Pers.875 (lyr.), wrongly expld. by Ath.2.41b). (Cf. Skt. pṛthú- 'broad', práthati 'spread out', etc. But in signf. 111 cogn. with Skt. pa[tnull ]u- 'sharp', 'pungent', tripa[tnull ]u 'the three saline substances'.)