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.

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platina (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, obsolete) platinum.
   • 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 792:

     She recites the principal metals, and has Sophie repeat them: gold, silver, platina, quicksilver, copper, iron, lead, tin, aluminium.

• platina mohr
• platina yellow

• “platina”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Chemical element
Pt
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Ultimately from Spanish platina.

• IPA^(key): [ˈplatɪna]
• Hyphenation: pla‧ti‧na

platina f (relational adjective platinový)

1. platinum

• “platina”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “platina”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “platina”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
• “platina”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2026, slovnikcestiny.cz

Chemical element
Pt
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Next: goud (Au)

From Spanish platina.

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platina n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. platinum

• → Indonesian: platina

From Spanish platina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɑtinɑ/, [ˈplɑ̝t̪inɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑtinɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pla‧ti‧na
• Hyphenation^(key): pla‧ti‧na

platina

1. platinum

• “platina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• plaanit

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• Homophones: platinas, platinât

platina

1. third-person singular past historic of platiner

Chemical element
Pt
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Next: arany (Au)

Ultimately from Spanish platina.

• IPA^(key): [ˈplɒtinɒ]
• Hyphenation: pla‧ti‧na
• Rhymes: -nɒ

platina (usually uncountable, plural platinák)

1. platinum (a metallic chemical element)

• platina in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Chemical element
Pt
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Next: emas (Au)

From Dutch platina, from Spanish platina (“platinum”), diminutive of plata (“silver”), from Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide”).

• IPA^(key): [plaˈtina]
• Hyphenation: pla‧ti‧na

platina (plural platina-platina)

1. platinum

   Synonyms: emas kodok, emas putih

• platinum (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• “platina”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From French platine.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ti.na/, /plaˈti.na/
• Rhymes: -atina, -ina
• Hyphenation: plà‧ti‧na, pla‧tì‧na

platina f (plural platine)

1. platen

From Spanish platina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ti.na/
• Rhymes: -atina
• Hyphenation: plà‧ti‧na

platina f (plural platine)

1. (archaic) alternative form of platino

• IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ti.na/
• Rhymes: -atina
• Hyphenation: plà‧ti‧na

platina

1. inflection of platinare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Platani, planati, platani

platīna

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of platīnum

• "platina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Ultimately from Spanish platina.

platina f (uncountable)

1. platinum (metal)

Borrowed from Norwegian platina. Ultimately from Spanish platina.

platina

1. platinum

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• platiidná

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Ultimately from Spanish platina.

platina n (definite singular platinaet) (uncountable)

1. platinum (a metallic chemical element (symbol Pt) with atomic number 78)

Ultimately from Spanish platina.

platina n (definite singular platinaet) (uncountable)

1. platinum (as above)

Chemical element
Pt
Previous: irídio (Ir)
Next: ouro (Au)

From Spanish platina.

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• Hyphenation: pla‧ti‧na

platina f (plural platinas)

1. (chemistry) platinum (chemical element)

• “platina”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “platina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French platiner.

a platina (third-person singular present platinează, past participle platinat) 1st conjugation

1. to platinize

Ultimately from Spanish platina.

• IPA^(key): /plǎtina/
• Hyphenation: pla‧ti‧na

plàtina f (Cyrillic spelling пла̀тина)

1. platinum

Symbol	Pt	Au	Ag	Fe	Al	Sn	Cu
metal	platina	zlato	srebro	željezo	aluminij	kalaj kositar	bakar

• “platina”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Chemical element
Pt
Previous: irídium (Ir)
Next: zlato (Au)

Ultimately from Spanish platina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɫatina/

platina f (genitive singular platiny, declension pattern of žena)

1. platinum (element)

• platinový

• “platina”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Chemical element
Pt
Previous: irídij (Ir)
Next: zlató (Au)

Ultimately from Spanish platina.

• IPA^(key): /pláːtina/

plȃtina f

1. platinum (metal)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	plátina
genitive	plátine
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	plátina
genitive (rodȋlnik)	plátine
dative (dajȃlnik)	plátini
accusative (tožȋlnik)	plátino
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	plátini
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	plátino

• “platina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “platina”, in Termania, Amebis
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• IPA^(key): /plaˈtina/ [plaˈt̪i.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: pla‧ti‧na

From plata (“silver”) +‎ -ina (diminutive).

platina f (uncountable)

1. (archaic) platinum

• → Bulgarian: плати́на (platína)
• → Catalan: platí
• → Czech: platina
• → Dutch: platina
  • → Indonesian: platina
• → English: platinum
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: प्लैटिनम (plaiṭinam)
    • Urdu: پلاٹینم (plāṭīnam)
  • → Malay: platinum
  • → Thai: แพลทินัม (plɛɛ-tí-nâm)
• → Esperanto: plateno
• → Estonian: plaatina
• → Finnish: platina
• → French: platine
  • → Arabic: بَلَاتِين (balātīn)
  • → German: Platin
    • → Danish: platin
  • → Italian: platina
  • → Khmer: ប្លាទីន (plaatiin)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پلاتین (platin), پلاتینه (platina)
    • Turkish: platin
  • → Persian: پلاتین (pelâtin)
  • → Romanian: platină
• → Galician: platino
• → Georgian: პლატინა (ṗlaṭina)
• → Greek: πλατίνα (platína)
• → Hebrew: פְּלָטִינָה (platína)
• → Hungarian: platina
• → Icelandic: platína
• → Japanese: プラチナ (purachina)
• → Korean: 플래티나 (peullaetina)
• → Latin: platinum
• → Latvian: platīns
• → Lithuanian: platina
• → Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: platina
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: platina
• → Polish: platyna
• → Portuguese: platina
• → Russian: пла́тина (plátina)
  • → Kazakh: платина (platina)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: пла̀тина
  • Latin script: plàtina
• → Slovak: platina
• → Slovene: platina
• → Swedish: platina
• → Ukrainian: пла́тина (plátyna)

Borrowed from French platine, from plat.

platina f (plural platinas)

1. stage (of a microscope)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

platina f

1. feminine singular of platino

• “platina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Chemical element
Pt
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Next: guld (Au)

Ultimately from Spanish platina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɑːtɪna/

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platina c

1. platinum

• platina in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• platina in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• platina in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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