patina

Borrowed from Italian patina, from Latin patina (“dish, pan”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē), either from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread”) or from Pre-Greek. Doublet of paten, patena, and patine.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpætɪnə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /pəˈtiː.nə/, /ˈpæ.tɪ.nə/
• Rhymes: -ætɪnə, -iːnə

patina (countable and uncountable, plural patinas or patinae)

1. (originally) A paten, flat type of dish.
2. The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.

   Hyponym: verdigris

3. A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.

   patina:  

4. (figurative) A gloss or superficial layer.

   he enjoys a patina of respect by the police, despite being an ex-criminal

   • 2012, Alison Winter, Memory: Fragments of a Modern History:

     It demonstrates how scientific authority could be constructed on the fly, as it were, by someone with no connections and no psychological credentials who offered a technique that had the patina of modern science […]

• fauxtina
• patinaed
• patinate

• patella

patina (not comparable)

1. Of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.

• Appendix:Colors
• verdigris

• “patina”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “patina”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Aptian, pinata, piñata, tai-pan, taipan

patina

1. inflection of patinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Italian patina, itself from Latin patina 'dish, pan'.

patina c (singular definite patinaen, not used in plural form)

1. patina

• patinere

• “patina” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “patina” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From Italian patina, itself from Latin patina 'dish, pan'.

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ti‧na

patina n (uncountable)

1. The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green oxidation which covers aging coppers, bronzes, coins and medals.

• patineren, to apply this color or a similar 'aged' effect.

patina

1. essive singular of patt

From Italian patina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑtinɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝t̪inɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑtinɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧ti‧na

patina

1. patina (color or incrustation)

• “patina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Tapani, apinat, ipanat, painat, patani, pintaa, tapain, tapani

patina

1. third-person singular past historic of patiner

• panait

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ti.na/
• Rhymes: -atina
• Hyphenation: pà‧ti‧na

From Latin patina (“pan”).

patina f (plural patine)

1. a patina (of age)
2. a coat, film, glaze, size, patina

• patinare (verb)
• patinoso (adjective)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

patina

1. inflection of patinare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• patina in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• panati, pianta, tapina

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē). This must be an early borrowing, because it displays vowel reduction of a to i.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ti.na/, [ˈpät̪ɪnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ti.na/, [ˈpäːt̪inä]

patina f (genitive patinae); first declension

1. A broad, shallow dish, a pan, stewpan.
2. A kind of cake.
3. A crib, manger.

First-declension noun.

• “patina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• patina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “patina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “patina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

patina

1. inflection of patinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French patiner.

a patina (third-person singular present patinează, past participle patinat) 1st conj.

1. to skate

Borrowed from Italian patina, from Latin patina (“dish, pan”).

• IPA^(key): /pâtina/
• Hyphenation: pa‧ti‧na

pȁtina f (Cyrillic spelling па̏тина)

1. patina (color or incrustation)
2. layer of sediments (usually on a façade or monuments)
3. (regional) shoe polish
4. A type of wine.

patina

1. inflection of patinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative