The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπατάνη
- Latin · derived frompatina
- Old French · derived frompatene
- Middle English · inherited frompatene
- English todaypaten
From Middle English patene, from Old French patene, from Latin patina, from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē). Doublet of patina, patine, and patena.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchpatene all →
pate
Latinpatina all →
panpatepatina
Ancient Greekπατάνη all →
panpatina
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.