Noun: plantain
| Singular | plantain |
| Plural | plantains |
Sample Sentences
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The roots of Plantain and Pellitory of Spain beaten to powder and put into hollow teeth, takes away the pains of them. [1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 225:]
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The paths too are overgrown, but easily identified by the presence on them of round-leaved plantains. [2003, Ernst Jünger, translated by Michael Hofmann, Storm of Steel, Penguin, published 2004, page 41:]
Nouns inflected like plantain
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English planteyne, planteyn, from Anglo-Norman plainteine et al., Old French plaintain, from Latin plantāgō, from planta (“sole of the foot”), a nasalized form of Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat; to spread”), because of the broad, flat shape of the plantain leaves. See: Middle English Nouns '
planteyne', Middle English Nouns '
planteyne', Latin Nouns '
plantāgō'.