Noun: patina
| Singular | patina |
| Plural | patinas; patinae |
Sample Sentences
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He enjoys a patina of respect by the police, despite being an ex-criminal.
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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[…] [2012, Alison Winter, Memory: Fragments of a Modern History:]
Nouns inflected like patina
palestra,
sarisa,
samara,
schola,
Banff Springs physa,
exumbrella,
bildungsroman,
turritella,
Sir David's long-beaked echidna,
comatula,
nanoantenna,
retinula,
pyrexia,
mesoamygdala,
planetary nebula,
saxicava,
Bildungsroman,
billboard antenna,
structural formula,
babesia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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, patine, and (possibly) pan. See: Italian Nouns '
patina', Latin Nouns '
patina', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πατάνη'.