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Old November 10, 2007, 01:23 PM
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Question plato - plate or dish

I've been wondering about the word 'plato' in Spanish. It means plate, but it is also used for dish. Now how can I express the meaning dish in spanish? A plate and a dish are 2 very different things.

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Dish (or bowl):
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Old November 10, 2007, 09:08 PM
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What you call a bowl is 'cuenca' or 'plato hondo' in Spanish, at least in Central America. A plate is 'plato', as you said, but 'to wash the dishes' is 'lavar los platos'. So, 'platos' is the catch-all word, equivalent to our word 'dishes'. I never heard any discrepancy in usage among the people of Central America. If they spoke of a 'plate', it was a 'plato'. If they spoke of a bowl, it was 'plato hondo' or 'cuenca'.

This may be different in other countries.
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Old November 10, 2007, 11:28 PM
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Ok thanks for the input. I've never heard of 'cuenca' before. Is it pretty common?
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I agree with Rusty.
But in Spain we call a bowl "tazón" or "cuenco"
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'Cuenco' and 'cuenca' are both very common. 'Plato hondo' is used less frequently.
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Plato hondo is actually pretty common in Mexico for dish/bowl. A bigger bowl or mixing bowl would be a tazón.
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for us "palto" is a "Plain dish" (for a steak) and "plato hondo" is a more deep dish (for eating soup, or other things). "Tazón", "cuenco", etc are bowls, for the cereals, for example

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Old November 13, 2007, 09:53 AM
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for us "palto" is a "Plain dish" (for a steak) and "plato hondo" is a more deep dish (for eating soup, or other things). "Tazón", "cuenco", etc are bowls, for the cereals, for example

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