platelet

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-us

Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us

Proto-Hellenic *plətús

Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús)bor.

Vulgar Latin *platta

Old French platebor.

Middle English plate

English plate

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin -ellus

Old French -el

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Late Latin -ittus

Old French -et

Old French -eletbor.

Middle English -let

English -let

English platelet

From plate + -let.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪt.lət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

platelet (plural platelets)

1. (hematology, cytology) A small colorless disk-shaped particle found in the blood of mammals, which plays an important role in the formation of blood clots.

   Synonyms: blood platelet, thrombocyte

Derived terms

• antiplatelet
• giant platelet disorder
• gray platelet syndrome
• grey platelet syndrome
• Harris platelet syndrome
• interplatelet
• intraplatelet
• nanoplatelet
• nonplatelet
• platelet function test
• plateletpheresis
• proplatelet
• sticky platelet syndrome

Translations

particle found in the blood of mammals

• Afrikaans: bloedplaatjie
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Aragonese: plaqueta f
• Armenian: թրոմբոցիտ (hy) (tʻrombocʻit), արյան թիթեղիկ (hy) (aryan tʻitʻeġik)
• Basque: plaketa
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: kagan (bcl)

• Catalan: plaqueta (ca) f, trombòcit m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 血小板 (zh) (xuèxiǎobǎn)

• Czech: krevní destička f
• Danish: blodplade (da) c
• Dutch: bloedplaatje (nl) n, trombocyt (nl) m
• Finnish: verihiutale (fi)
• French: thrombocyte (fr) m, plaquette (fr) f
• Galician: plaqueta (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Thrombozyt (de) m, Blutplättchen (de) n
• Greek: αιμοπετάλιο (el) n (aimopetálio)
• Hebrew: טסית (he) f (tasít)
• Hindi: बिंबाणु m (bimbāṇu)
• Hungarian: vérlemezke (hu), trombocita (hu)
• Icelandic: blóðflaga (is) f
• Indonesian: platelet (id)
• Irish: pláitín m, pláitín fola m
• Italian: piastrina (it) f, trombocito m
• Japanese: 血小板 (ja) (けっしょうばん, kesshōban)
• Kannada: ಕಿರುಬಿಲ್ಲೆ (kn) (kirubille)
• Korean: 혈소판(血小板) (ko) (hyeolsopan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: perika xwînê f

• Latin: thrombocytus m
• Macedonian: крвните плочки ? (krvnite pločki)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: płytka krwi f, trombocyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: plaqueta (pt) f
• Quechua: yawar llukllunacha
• Romanian: trombocit (ro) n, plachetă sangvină f
• Russian: тромбоци́т (ru) m (trombocít)
• Spanish: plaqueta (es) f, trombocito (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: blodplätt (sv) c, trombocyt (sv) c
• Tagalog: muntilipay
• Thai: เกล็ดเลือด (th) (glèt-lʉ̂ʉat), แผ่นเลือด
• Turkish: trombosit, kan pulcuğu
• Ukrainian: тромбоци́т m (trombocýt)
• Vietnamese: tiểu cầu (vi)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• altepetl, pallette

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from English platelet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaˈtelət̚/
• Rhymes: -lət, -ət, -t
• Hyphenation: pla‧té‧lêt

Noun

platélêt (plural platelet-platelet)

1. (hematology) platelet: A small colorless disk-shaped particle found in the blood of mammals, which plays an important role in the formation of blood clots

   Synonyms: keping darah, lempeng darah, trombosit

Further reading

• “platelet”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016