Etymology

tinplate

T1I1N1P3L1A1T1E1
English plate ← Middle English plate ← Old French plate
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The story

  1. Englishtin
  2. Vulgar Latin*platta
  3. Old Frenchplate
  4. Middle Englishplate
  5. Englishplate
  6. English todaytinplate

From tin + plate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.