patina

See also: Patina, patína, pátina, and patiná

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French patine (“patina”), from Latin patina (“dish, pan”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē), from Proto-Indo-European *pet-ano , from *pete- (“to spread”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

   patina colour:  

4. (figuratively) A gloss or superficial layer.
   • 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 […]

Hyponyms

• (colour or incrustation which age and wear give to objects): verdigris

Derived terms

• patinaed

Related terms

• patella

Translations

receptacle

• Dutch: pateen (nl)
• French: patène (fr) f

• Italian: patina (it) f
• Romanian: patină (ro) f

colour or incrustation which age and wear give to objects

• Catalan: pàtina (ca) f
• Dutch: patina (nl)
• Finnish: patina (fi)
• French: patine (fr) f
• German: Patina (de) f
• Japanese: 緑青 (ろくしょう, rokushō)
• Persian: پتینه‎ (patine)
• Polish: patyna (pl) f

• Portuguese: pátina f
• Romanian: patină (ro) f
• Russian: па́ти́на (ru) f (pátína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̏тина f

  Roman: pȁtina (sh) f

• Spanish: pátina f
• Ukrainian: па́ти́на f (pátýna)

colour

Adjective

patina (not comparable)

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

Derived terms

• patinate, to coat with a patina

See also

• Appendix:Colors
• verdigris

Anagrams

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

---

Danish

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. patina

Declension

Declension of patina

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	patina	patinaen
genitive	patinas	patinaens

Derived terms

• patinere

Further reading

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

---

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pa‧ti‧na

Noun

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.

Derived terms

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

---

Finnish

Noun

patina

1. patina (color or incrustation)

Declension

Inflection of patina (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		patina	patinat
genitive		patinan	patinoiden patinoitten
partitive		patinaa	patinoita
illative		patinaan	patinoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		patina	patinat
accusative	nom.	patina	patinat
	gen.	patinan
genitive		patinan	patinoiden patinoitten patinainrare
partitive		patinaa	patinoita
inessive		patinassa	patinoissa
elative		patinasta	patinoista
illative		patinaan	patinoihin
adessive		patinalla	patinoilla
ablative		patinalta	patinoilta
allative		patinalle	patinoille
essive		patinana	patinoina
translative		patinaksi	patinoiksi
instructive		—	patinoin
abessive		patinatta	patinoitta
comitative		—	patinoineen

Possessive forms of patina (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	patinani	patinamme
2nd person	patinasi	patinanne
3rd person	patinansa

Anagrams

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

---

French

Verb

patina

1. third-person singular past historic of patiner

Anagrams

• panait

---

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

patina f (plural patine)

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

Related terms

• patinare (verb)
• patinoso (adjective)

Verb

patina

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

Anagrams

• panati, pianta, tapina

---

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ti.na/, [ˈpa.t̪ɪ.n̪a]

Noun

patina f (genitive patinae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	patina	patinae
Genitive	patinae	patinārum
Dative	patinae	patinīs
Accusative	patinam	patinās
Ablative	patinā	patinīs
Vocative	patina	patinae

Descendants

• French: panne
• Galician: padia
• → German: Pfette
• Occitan: padeau

References

• 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, 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

---

Portuguese

Verb

patina

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of patinar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of patinar

---

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pȁtina f (Cyrillic spelling па̏тина)

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

Declension

Declension of patina

	singular	plural
nominative	patina	patine
genitive	patine	patina
dative	patini	patinama
accusative	patinu	patine
vocative	patino	patine
locative	patini	patinama
instrumental	patinom	patinama

---

Spanish

Verb

patina

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of patinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of patinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of patinar.