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.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
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.
Meanings
(countable, qualifier:originally, uncountable) A paten (a flat type of dish).
(countable, uncountable) The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (chiefly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
(countable, uncountable) A green colour tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable) A gloss or superficial layer.
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:
He enjoys a patina of respect by the police, despite being an ex-criminal.
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