noun, feminine/ˈplanta/plural: plantas
plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae, and now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism); plant (factory); floor, level (of a high building); sole; sole (bottom of a shoe or boot)
“Vivo en la primera planta” — I live on the first floor.
Synonyms: fábrica, piso, nivel, suela
Inherited from Old Spanish planta (“plant”), borrowed from Latin planta, from Proto-Italic *plāntā, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”). Compare the now obsolete inherited form llanta.