planter

English

Etymology

From plant +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplæntə(ɹ)/, /ˈplɑːntə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

planter (plural planters)

1. One who plants something.
   • 2002, Jill Christman, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, page 100:

     She didn't use any magic truth serums, nor did she suggest hypnotherapy, but barring this, she personified the greatest enemy of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation — an evil planter of false memories.

   • 2014, Andrea di Robilant, Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside:

     De Rocco, the compulsive rose planter, had surreptitiously placed the rose there.

2. A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor.
   • 2023 February 8, “Network News: News in Brief: Planters at Chelmsford”, in RAIL, number 976, page 20:

     Chelmsford station is looking smarter after the local Community Rail Partnership and Rotary Club members installed 12 large planters on the platforms.

3. (historical) Any of the early English or Scottish settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
4. A machine used for planting seeds.
5. The owner of a plantation.

Derived terms

• church planter
• planter box
• planterful
• plantership
• plantership
• planter's wart

 

Translations

box or pot

• Azerbaijani: dibçək (az)
• Bulgarian: кашпа f (kašpa)
• Finnish: kukkalaatikko (fi), kukkaruukku (fi)
• French: jardinière (fr) f, pot de fleur (fr) m
• Hebrew: עָצִיץ (he) m ('atzítz)
• Swedish: blomkruka (sv) c, golvkruka c, utomhuskruka c, planteringslåda c, blomlåda (sv) c, balkonglåda (sv) c
• Turkish: saksı (tr)

early English settler

• Swedish: bosättare (sv) c, kolonist (sv) c, nyodlare c

machine

• Bulgarian: сеялка f (sejalka)
• Finnish: istuttaja (fi)
• Swedish: såmaskin (sv) c

person operating a planter

• Swedish: såningsman c

owner of a plantation

• Bulgarian: плантатор m (plantator)
• Finnish: plantaasinomistaja
• French: planteur (fr) m
• Hindi: प्लैंटर (hi) m (pla͠iṭar)
• Polish: plantator (pl) m
• Swedish: plantageägare c

Anagrams

• Larpent, pantler, Platner, replant

Catalan

Etymology

From planta +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [plənˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [planˈteɾ]

Noun

planter m (plural planters)

1. nursery (place where young plants are cultivated)

   Synonym: viver

2. seedling
3. (figurative) breeding-ground

Derived terms

• planteraire
• planterista

Further reading

• “planter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cebuano

Etymology

Back-formation from planteran.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: plan‧ter

Noun

planter

1. a frameup; a false incrimination of an innocent person

Danish

Noun

planter c

1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

planter

1. present of plante

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch planter. Equivalent to planten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɑn.tər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: plan‧ter

Noun

planter m (plural planters)

1. a planter, one who plants (usually plants or perhaps fungi)
2. a farmer, a tiller; in particular the owner or operator of a plantation, a planter
3. a founder of a colony, a settler, a coloniser

Descendants

• Negerhollands: planta

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin plantāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɑ̃.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

planter

1. (transitive) to plant
2. (transitive) to drive in (a nail, stake etc.)
3. (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
4. (transitive, informal) to flake, leave someone behind, by not showing up (for a meeting, date)
5. (transitive, intransitive, computing) to crash
6. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fall off
7. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fail, to not succeed
8. (reflexive, informal, se planter, a vehicle and etc) to break down
9. (transitive, slang) to stab with a knife
   • 1981, Jean-Marc Ligny, Furia!, →ISBN:

     Il se dit qu’il ne ressortira plus jamais de cette cour des miracles, que dans dix minutes un petit nerveux va déboucher d’une venelle avec un couteau et le planter aussi sec.

     He thinks that he will never get out of this slum, that in ten minutes a jumpy little man will appear from an alleyway with a knife and stab him straight away.

Conjugation

Conjugation of planter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	planter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	plantant /plɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		planté /plɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	plante /plɑ̃t/	plantes /plɑ̃t/	plante /plɑ̃t/	plantons /plɑ̃.tɔ̃/	plantez /plɑ̃.te/	plantent /plɑ̃t/
	imperfect	plantais /plɑ̃.tɛ/	plantais /plɑ̃.tɛ/	plantait /plɑ̃.tɛ/	plantions /plɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	plantiez /plɑ̃.tje/	plantaient /plɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	plantai /plɑ̃.te/	plantas /plɑ̃.ta/	planta /plɑ̃.ta/	plantâmes /plɑ̃.tam/	plantâtes /plɑ̃.tat/	plantèrent /plɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	planterai /plɑ̃.tʁe/	planteras /plɑ̃.tʁa/	plantera /plɑ̃.tʁa/	planterons /plɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	planterez /plɑ̃.tʁe/	planteront /plɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	planterais /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/	planterais /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/	planterait /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/	planterions /plɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	planteriez /plɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	planteraient /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	plante /plɑ̃t/	plantes /plɑ̃t/	plante /plɑ̃t/	plantions /plɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	plantiez /plɑ̃.tje/	plantent /plɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	plantasse /plɑ̃.tas/	plantasses /plɑ̃.tas/	plantât /plɑ̃.ta/	plantassions /plɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	plantassiez /plɑ̃.ta.sje/	plantassent /plɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	plante /plɑ̃t/	—	plantons /plɑ̃.tɔ̃/	plantez /plɑ̃.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• planter le décor
• se planter

Related terms

• plante
• plantation

Further reading

• “planter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• parlent

Latin

Verb

planter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plantō

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French planteur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plɑ̃tɛː]

Noun

planter

1. a planter; one that plants something

   Synonym: agrikilter

Related terms

• plantasion
• plant
• plante

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

planter m or f

1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

planter

1. present of plante

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• plantar

Noun

planter m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of plante