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platina

platina noun: platinum.

Noun

platina (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) platinum.
    • She recites the principal metals, and has Sophie repeat them: gold, silver, platina, quicksilver, copper, iron, lead, tin, aluminium.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 792

Origin of platina

From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto"). It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans. Doublet of platinum.

Words formed from platina

  • platina mohr
  • platina yellow

Questions about platina

What does platina mean?
Platina means platinum.
What part of speech is platina?
Platina is a noun.

Words near platina in the dictionary

  1. platicons
  2. platier
  3. platies
  4. platiest
  5. platin
  6. platina
  7. platinate
  8. platinated
  9. platinates
  10. platinating
  11. platination

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