flata

flātā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of flātō

• flaten

flata m or f

1. definite feminine singular of flate

flata f

1. definite singular of flate

Borrowed from French flatter.

a flata (third-person singular present flatează, past participle flatat) 1st conjugation

1. to flatter

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɑːˌta/

Derived from flat (“flat”). Cognate to English flat.

flata

1. inflection of flat:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

flata c

1. flat side (of something), a flat

   Synonym: flatsida (“flatside”)

   1. palm (of the hand)

      Synonym: handflata

• handflata (“palm (of the hand)”)

By surface analysis, flat +‎ -a (fem-suffix), alluding to an unwomanly body shape. Recorded since at least the 1960s, where it occurs in Haldo Gibson's slang dictionary.

flata c

1. (colloquial) a female homosexual, a lesbo, a dyke

   Synonyms: lesbisk, (possibly offensive) lebb, homosexuell, gay

2. flat-chested woman

   Synonym: planka

Flata was a highly offensive slur towards homosexual women, but has been reclaimed by the gay rights movement as a self-descriptive term. See also bög.

• flatsex
• handflata (“palm”)

• “flata”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “flata”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “flata”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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