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6-letter words (3 found)

PATINA,PINATA,TAIPAN,

5-letter words (5 found)

APIAN,INAPT,PAINT,PATIN,PINTA,

4-letter words (17 found)

ANTA,ANTI,ATAP,NAPA,NIPA,PAAN,PAIN,PANT,PIAN,PINA,PINT,PITA,TAIN,TANA,TAPA,TIAN,TINA,

3-letter words (22 found)

AIA,AIN,AIT,ANA,ANI,ANT,APT,ITA,NAP,NAT,NIP,NIT,PAN,PAT,PIA,PIN,PIT,TAI,TAN,TAP,TIN,TIP,

2-letter words (11 found)

AA,AI,AN,AT,IN,IT,NA,PA,PI,TA,TI,

You can make 58 words from patina according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of patina

patina

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpætɪnə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /pəˈtiː.nə/, /ˈpæ.tɪ.nə/
  • Rhymes: -ætɪnə, -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.
    Hyponym: verdigris
  3. A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
  4. (figurative) A gloss or superficial layer.

Derived terms

  • fauxtina
  • patinaed
  • patinate

Related terms

  • patella

Translations

Adjective

patina (not comparable)

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

See also

  • Appendix:Colors
  • verdigris

Further reading

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

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Verb

patina

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

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

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

  • 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.

Estonian

Noun

patina

  1. essive singular of patt

Finnish

Etymology

From Italian patina.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

patina

  1. patina (color or incrustation)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “patina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (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

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/
  • Rhymes: -atina
  • Hyphenation: pà‧ti‧na

Etymology 1

From Latin patina (“pan”).

Noun

patina f (plural patine)

  1. a patina (of age)
  2. a coat, film, glaze, size, patina
Related terms
  • patinare (verb)
  • patinoso (adjective)
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

patina

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

Further reading

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

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

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.

Descendants

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 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

Portuguese

Verb

patina

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French patiner.

Verb

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

  1. to skate

Conjugation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed 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 façade or monuments)
  3. (regional) shoe polish
  4. A type of wine.

Declension

Spanish

Verb

patina

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

Source: wiktionary.org