patina Latin · revision 33015

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc πατάνη}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpa.tɪ.na]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpaː.ti.na]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''patina''' ''f'' (genitive patinae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''patena''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|πατάνη|tr=patánē|t=dish]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) Wiktionary notes that the weakening of ⟨a⟩ to ⟨i⟩ shows it to be an early borrowing.^(Wiktionary) The OLD compares [[pateo|alt=pateō]] “to be open”.^(OLD 2012) Varro derived it from [[patulus]], and Isidore of Seville from its spread-out, open rim.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it in the ''Pseudolus'', of pans boiling,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in the ''Mostellaria''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a broad, shallow pan or dish for cooking or serving food.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) 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.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder writes of a plant eaten cooked ''in patinīs'', and Suetonius of dishes of huge size.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Apicius uses it of a kind of cake, and Vegetius of a crib or manger.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The spelling ''patena'' also occurs.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) In Church Latin it is the [[m|en|paten]],^(Stelten 1995) and English ''paten'', a plate for the bread at the Eucharist (c. 1300), comes from Old French and Medieval Latin ''patena''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of cooking pans.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of dishes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a lamprey on a dish.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''paten''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A broad, shallow [[m|en|dish]] or [[m|en|pan]] for cooking or serving food; a stewpan.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A kind of cake.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|crib]], [[m|en|manger]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|paten]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[patinārius]]

+ * [[tripatinium]]

+ * [[tripatinum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|paten]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Lewis & Short compare [[lanx]] and [[catinus]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}