Etymology

platinate

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Today it means: Any of several oxyanions of platinum, or the salts containing these ions. Full definition →

English platinum ← Spanish platina ← Vulgar Latin *plattus
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platinate · noun1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pleth₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pléth₂us
  3. Proto-Hellenic*plətús
  4. Ancient Greekπλατύς (platús)
  5. Vulgar Latin*plattus
  6. Spanishplata
  7. Spanishplatina
  8. Englishplatinum
  9. English todayplatinate

From platinum + -ate (“derivative”).

platinate · verb2

From platin + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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