Planta, plantæ, fœm. gen. The foote with the toes: sometime the sole of the foote. A plant: an hearb.Alatæ plantæ.Virg.Winged feete.Ancipiti figens vestigia planta. Iuuenal. Stopping softly, as though he were afraide to set his foote to the ground.Auersæ plantæ, Vide AVERTO.Ferratæ plantæ. Claud. Feete shod with yron.Læua planta.Cic. Niueæ plantæ. Claud. Pernices.Virg.Swiftfeete.Teneræ plantæ.Virg. Timidæ. Ouid.Tremulis insistere plantis. Iuuenal. To stande on his feete trembling.Velocis gloria plantæ.Iuuen.The glorie of swift running.Volucris planta. Sil. Contingere sydera plantis. Propert. Celeres plantas tingere æquore. Virgil. To diepe or wet his swift feete in the sea.Aegra planta euadere lubrica. Sil. Planta de arboribus.Virg.A plant or tree newly set.Feraces plantæ.Virg. Teneræ. Virg.Summas plantas defringere ex arbore. Virgil. To break off graffes or sciences from a tree.Deponere sulcis plantas.Virg.To plant yong trees in furrowes.Euellere plantam. Hor.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
planta, ae, f. [for plancta; cf. plānus; root v. plango]. I. Any vegetable production that serves to propagate the species, a sprout, shoot, twig, sprig, sucker, graft, scion, slip, cutting, Varr. R. R. 1, 55: malleoli, plantae, sarmenta, viviradices, propagines, Cic. Sen. 15, 52; Verg. G. 2, 23.—B. A young tree, a shrub that may be transplanted, a set, slip, Ov. R. Am. 193: plantas ex seminario transferre in aliud, Plin. 17, 11, 14, 75: plantae sinapis primā hieme translatae, Col. 11, 3, 29: thymi novellas plantas disponere, id. 11. 3, 40: puteusque brevis ... in tenuis plantas facile diffunditur haustu, Juv. 3, 227: planta, quam quis in solo nostro posuerit, Gai. Inst. 2, 74 (but not used in the general sense of a plant, for which, in class. Lat.: res quae gignitur e terrā, etc., Cic. Fin. 4, 5, 13; v. Madv. ad loc., and Krebs, Antibarb. p. 890).—II.A sole, sole of the foot: ah! tibi ne teneras glacies secet aspera plantas, Verg. E. 10, 49: citae, Ov. M. 10, 591: cubitales, Plin. 7, 2, 2, 24: pedum plantae, Verg. A. 8, 458: mihi summa licet contingere sidera plantis, Prop. 1, 8, 43: plantā duci,