platinum

English

Native platinum nuggets

Chemical element
Pt
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Next: gold (Au)

Etymology

From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") +‎ -um. It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans.

Pronunciation

• enPR: plăt'ĭn-əm, IPA^(key): /ˈplæt.ɪn.əm/; enPR: plăt'nəm, IPA^(key): /ˈplæt.nəm/; enPR: plăt'n-əm, IPA^(key): /ˈplæt.n̩.əm/
• (obsolete, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /pləˈtaɪn.əm/, /pləˈtiːn.əm/, /pləˈtɪn.əm/

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• Rhymes: -ætɪnəm, -ætnəm, -ætn̩əm

Noun

platinum (countable and uncountable, plural platinums)

2. The chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value.
4. A whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.

   platinum:  

6. (music) A single or album that has achieved platinum sales, i.e. over 1 million or 2 million.
8. (medicine, sometimes, elliptically) A platinum-based drug: a platin.

Synonyms

• platina (obsolete)
• white gold (obsolete)

Derived terms

• carboplatin
• cisplatin
• diplatinum
• eka-platinum
• ferronickelplatinum
• go platinum
• heptaplatinum
• iridio-platinum
• isoferroplatinum
• multiplatinum
• nonplatinum
• organoplatinum
• oxaliplatin
• Paraplatin
• platarsite
• platin-
• platinammonium chloride
• platinate
• platinian
• platinic
• platiniferous
• platiniridium
• platinise, platinize
• platinite
• platino-
• platinocyanide
• platinode
• platinoid
• platinous
• platinum anniversary
• platinum arsenide
• platinum black
• platinum-black
• platinum blond, platinum blonde
• platinum-blue
• platinum coney
• platinum dichloride
• platinum disc, platinum disk
• platinum duck
• platinum fox
• platinum-grey
• platinum group
• platinum hexafluoride
• platinum-iridium
• platinum jubilee
• platinum-lamp
• platinum lamp
• platinumlike
• platinum metal
• platinum mink
• platinum rule
• platinum shower
• platinumsmith
• platinum sombrero
• platinum sponge
• platinum-steel
• platinum tetrachloride
• platinum-zinc
• postplatinum
• potassio-platinum chloride
• radioplatinum
• tetraferroplatinum
• tetraplatinum
• triplatinum

 

Related terms

• platina

Translations

metal

• Afrikaans: platinum (af)
• Albanian: platin (sq) m
• Arabic: بْلَاتِين m (blātīn)
• Armenian: պլատին (hy) (platin)
• Assamese: প্লেটিনাম (pletinam)
• Asturian: platín (ast) m
• Basque: platinoa
• Belarusian: пла́ціна (be) f (plácina)
• Bengali: প্লাটিনাম (bn) (plaṭinam)
• Breton: platin m
• Bulgarian: плати́на (bg) f (platína)
• Burmese: ရွှေဖြူ (my) (hrwehpru)
• Catalan: platí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白金 (zh) (báijīn), 鉑／铂 (zh) (bó)

• Cornish: platinom m
• Crimean Tatar: aqaltın
• Czech: platina (cs) f
• Danish: platin (da) n
• Dutch: platina (nl) n
• Esperanto: plateno (eo)
• Estonian: plaatina (et)
• Faroese: platin
• Finnish: platina (fi)
• French: platine (fr) m
• Friulian: platin
• Galician: platino (gl)
• Georgian: პლატინა (ṗlaṭina)
• German: Platin (de) n
• Greek: πλατίνα (el) f (platína), λευκόχρυσος (el) m (lefkóchrysos)
• Hebrew: פלטינה (he) (platína)
• Hindi: महातु (mahātu), प्लैटिनम (hi) (plaiṭinam)
• Hungarian: platina (hu)
• Icelandic: platína (is)
• Indonesian: platina (id), emas putih (id), emas kodok (id)
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• Irish: platanam m
• Italian: platino (it) m
• Japanese: プラチナ (ja) (purachina), 白金 (ja) (はっきん, hakkin)
• Kashubian: platina
• Kazakh: платина (platina)
• Khmer: ប្លាទីន (plaatiin)
• Korean: 백금(白金) (ko) (baekgeum), 플래티나 (ko) (peullaetina)
• Kyrgyz: платина (platina)
• Lao: ຄຳຂາວ (kham khāo)
• Latin: platinum (la) n
• Latvian: platīns m
• Lithuanian: platina (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Platinn m
• Macedonian: плати́на f (platína)
• Malay: platinum, platina, mas kodok
• Maltese: platinu
• Manx: platinum
• Maori: konukawata
• Mongolian: платин (platin), цагаан (mn) (cagaan), цагаан алт (cagaan alt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: platina (no) n

  Nynorsk: platina (nn) n

• Occitan: platin (oc) m
• Ottoman Turkish: پلاتین (platin)
• Persian: پلاتین (fa) (pelâtin), طلای سفید (fa) (talā-ye sefīd), اسپیدزر (espīdzarr)
• Polish: platyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: platina (pt) f
• Romanian: platină (ro) f
• Russian: пла́тина (ru) f (plátina)
• Scottish Gaelic: platanam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: платина f

  Roman: platina (sh) f

• Sicilian: plàtinu m
• Slovak: platina (sk) f
• Slovene: platina (sl) f
• Spanish: platino (es) m
• Swedish: platina (sv) c
• Tagalog: platino
• Tajik: платина (platina)
• Tamil: வெண்தங்கம் (veṇtaṅkam), வெண்மம் (veṇmam), விழுப்பொன் (ta) (viḻuppoṉ)
• Thai: ทองคำขาว (tɔɔng-kam-kǎao), แพลทินัม (plɛɛ-tí-nâm)
• Turkish: platin (tr)
• Turkmen: platina
• Ukrainian: пла́тина f (plátyna)
• Urdu: پلاٹینم (plāṭīnam)
• Uzbek: platina (uz)

  Cyrillic: платина (uz) (platina)

• Vietnamese: platin, bạch kim (vi)
• Volapük: platin (vo)
• Welsh: platinwm (cy)
• West Frisian: platina n
• Yiddish: פּלאַטינום m (platinum)

colour

• Bulgarian: плати́на (bg) f (platína), плати́нен m (platínen)
• Finnish: platinanvaalea
• Georgian: პლატინისფერი (ṗlaṭinisperi), ცივი ქერა (civi kera)
• Portuguese: platinado m
• Vietnamese: màu bạch kim, màu xám trắng

recording that has achieved platinum sales

• Danish: platinplade c
• Finnish: platinalevy (fi)

Adjective

platinum (not comparable)

1. Of a whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
2. Of a musical recording that has sold over one million copies (for singles), or two million (for albums).
3. Very expensive, or of very high quality

   We can offer the platinum service for fifty dollars extra.

Derived terms

• go platinum
• platinum blond

Translations

colour

• Bulgarian: плати́нен m (platínen)
• Finnish: platinanvaalea
• Portuguese: platinado

musical recording

• Bulgarian: плати́нен m (platínen)
• Czech: platinový (cs)
• Finnish: platina- (fi)
• Galician: platino (gl) m
• Polish: platynowy (pl) m, platynowa f

Verb

platinum (third-person singular simple present platinums, present participle platinuming, simple past and past participle platinumed)

1. (computer games) to reach platinum level in a game

   I platinumed in Clash of Clans yesterday.

Translations

to reach platinum

• Finnish: päästä platinatasolle

See also

• cooperite
• sperrylite
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Platinum”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “platinum”, in Mindat.org‎^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Afrikaans

Chemical element
Pt
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Next: goud (Au)

Pronunciation

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Adjective

platinum (attributive platinum, not comparable)

1. platinum; made from platinum

Noun

platinum (uncountable)

1. platinum

Latin

Chemical element
Pt
Previous: iridium (Ir)
Next: aurum (Au)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /plaˈtiː.num/, [pɫ̪äˈt̪iːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /plaˈti.num/, [pläˈt̪iːnum]

Noun

platīnum n (genitive platīnī); second declension

1. platinum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	platīnum	platīna
Genitive	platīnī	platīnōrum
Dative	platīnō	platīnīs
Accusative	platīnum	platīna
Ablative	platīnō	platīnīs
Vocative	platīnum	platīna

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplaː˨ti˧nɔ˧m]

Noun

platinum m

1. (uncountable) platinum
2. A part of platinum

Malay

Chemical element
Pt
Previous: iridium (Ir)
Next: emas (Au)

Alternative forms

• pelatinam

Etymology

From English platinum, from Spanish platina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [platinom], [platinəm], [plɛtinəm]
• Rhymes: -inom, -nom, -om

Noun

platinum

1. platinum

Alternative forms

• platina (Indonesia)