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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ˈpa.tɪ.na][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ˈpaː.ti.na][1]

Forms

patina f (genitive patinae); first declension[1] Also spelled patena.[2][3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē, “dish”);[4][1][3][5] Wiktionary notes that the weakening of ⟨a⟩ to ⟨i⟩ shows it to be an early borrowing.[1] The OLD compares pateō “to be open”.[4] Varro derived it from patulus, and Isidore of Seville from its spread-out, open rim.[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Plautus has it in the Pseudolus, of pans boiling,[2] and in the Mostellaria.[2]

Semantic evolution

It is a broad, shallow pan or dish for cooking or serving food.[4][2] In Terence a speaker says his mind has long been on the dishes, that is, he is hungry, and Horace has a lamprey laid out in one.[2] Pliny the Elder writes of a plant eaten cooked in patinīs, and Suetonius of dishes of huge size.[2] Apicius uses it of a kind of cake, and Vegetius of a crib or manger.[2] The spelling patena also occurs.[2][3] In Church Latin it is the paten,[6] and English paten, a plate for the bread at the Eucharist (c. 1300), comes from Old French and Medieval Latin patena.[7]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of cooking pans.[2]
  • 190–159 BC – Terence of dishes.[2]
  • 65–8 BC – Horace of a lamprey on a dish.[2]
  • c. 1300 – English paten.[7]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A broad, shallow dish or pan for cooking or serving food; a stewpan.[4][2][1]
  2. A kind of cake.[2][1]
  3. A crib, manger.[2][1]
  4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) A paten.[6]

Word family

  • patinārius
  • tripatinium
  • tripatinum
  • English paten

Usage notes

Lewis & Short compare lanx and catinus.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  3. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b c d Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  5. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  7. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com