platinum
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-games
entertainment
games
lifestyle
medicine
music
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us
Proto-Hellenic *plətús
Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús)bor.
Vulgar Latin *plattusder.
Spanish plata
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
Spanish -ina
Spanish platina
English -um
English platinum
From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") + -um. 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 platina.
Affixes: -um
Inflected forms:
form: platinums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: platinums
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: platinuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: platinumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: platinumed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A single or album that has achieved platinum sales, i.e. over 1 million or 2 million.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A platinum-based drug: a platin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
ellipsis
sometimes
gloss: Of a whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a musical recording that has sold over one million copies (for singles), or two million (for albums).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Very expensive, or of very high quality.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: We can offer the platinum service for fifty dollars extra.
gloss: To attain all of the achievements in a game (originally on certain PlayStation consoles, now colloquially used regardless of platform).
pos: verb
examples: I platinumed in Clash of Clans yesterday.
Synonyms: platina
white gold
Related words: platina
Derived words: carboplatin
cisplatin
diplatinum
eka-platinum
ferronickelplatinum
heptaplatinum
iridio-platinum
isoferroplatinum
multiplatinum
nonplatinum
organoplatinum
oxaliplatin
Paraplatin
platarsite
platin-
platinammonium chloride
platinate
platinian
platinic
platiniferous
platiniridium
platinise
platinize
platinite
platino-
platinocyanide
platinode
platinoid
platinous
platinum anniversary
platinum arsenide
platinum-black
platinum black
platinum blonde
platinum-blue
platinum coney
platinum dichloride
platinum disc
platinum disk
platinum duck
platinum fox
platinum-grey
platinum group
platinum hexafluoride
platinum-iridium
platinum jubilee
platinum-lamp
platinum lamp
platinumlike
platinum metal
platinum mink
platinum open access
platinum rule
platinum shower
platinumsmith
platinum sombrero
platinum sponge
platinum-steel
platinum tetrachloride
platinum-zinc
postplatinum
potassio-platinum chloride
radioplatinum
tetraferroplatinum
tetraplatinum
triplatinum
go platinum
platinum blond
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: platinum
lang: Albanian
word: platin
lang: Amharic
word: ፕላቲነም
roman: pəlatinäm
lang: Arabic
word: بَلَاتِين
roman: balātīn
lang: Arabic
word: بَلَاتِينُوم
roman: balātīnūm
lang: Armenian
word: պլատին
roman: platin
lang: Assamese
word: প্লেটিনাম
roman: pletinam
lang: Asturian
word: platín
lang: Azerbaijani
word: platin
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ağqızıl
lang: Basque
word: platinoa
lang: Belarusian
word: пла́ціна
roman: plácina
lang: Bengali
word: প্লাটিনাম
roman: plaṭinam
lang: Breton
word: platin
lang: Bulgarian
word: плати́на
roman: platína
lang: Burmese
word: ရွှေဖြူ
roman: hrwehpru
lang: Burmese
word: ပလာတီနမ်
roman: pa.latinam
lang: Catalan
word: platí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 白金
roman: báijīn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鉑 /铂
roman: bó
lang: Cornish
word: platinom
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: aqaltın
lang: Czech
word: platina
lang: Danish
word: platin
lang: Dutch
word: platina
lang: Esperanto
word: plateno
lang: Estonian
word: plaatina
lang: Faroese
word: platin
lang: Finnish
word: platina
lang: French
word: platine
lang: West-Frisian
word: platina
lang: Friulian
word: platin
lang: Galician
word: platino
lang: Georgian
word: პლატინა
roman: ṗlaṭina
lang: German
word: Platin
lang: Greek
word: πλατίνα
roman: platína
lang: Greek
word: λευκόχρυσος
roman: lefkóchrysos
lang: Hebrew
word: פלטינה
roman: platína
lang: Hindi
word: महातु
roman: mahātu
lang: Hindi
word: प्लैटिनम
roman: plaiṭinam
lang: Hungarian
word: platina
lang: Icelandic
word: platína
lang: Indonesian
word: platina
lang: Indonesian
word: emas putih
lang: Indonesian
word: emas kodok
lang: Irish
word: platanam
lang: Italian
word: platino
lang: Japanese
word: プラチナ
roman: purachina
lang: Japanese
word: 白金
roman: hakkin
lang: Kashubian
word: platina
lang: Kazakh
word: платина
roman: platina
lang: Khmer
word: ប្លាទីន
roman: plaatiin
lang: Korean
word: 백금
roman: baekgeum
lang: Korean
word: 플래티나
roman: peullaetina
lang: Kyrgyz
word: платина
roman: platina
lang: Lao
word: ຄຳຂາວ
roman: kham khāo
lang: Latin
word: platinum
lang: Latvian
word: platīns
lang: Lithuanian
word: platina
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Platinn
lang: Macedonian
word: плати́на
roman: platína
lang: Malay
word: platinum
lang: Malay
word: platina
lang: Malay
word: mas kodok
lang: Maltese
word: platinu
lang: Manx
word: platinum
lang: Māori
word: konukawata
lang: Mongolian
word: платин
roman: platin
lang: Mongolian
word: цагаан
roman: cagaan
lang: Mongolian
word: цагаан алт
roman: cagaan alt
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: platina
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: platina
lang: Occitan
word: platin
lang: Pashto
word: پلاټينيوم
roman: plāṭīnium
lang: Persian
word: پلاتین
roman: pelâtin
lang: Persian
word: طلای سفید
roman: talā-ye sefīd
lang: Persian
word: اسپیدزر
roman: espīdzarr
lang: Polish
word: platyna
lang: Portuguese
word: platina
lang: Romanian
word: platină
lang: Russian
word: пла́тина
roman: plátina
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: platanam
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: платина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: platina
lang: Sicilian
word: plàtinu
lang: Slovak
word: platina
lang: Slovene
word: platina
lang: Spanish
word: platino
lang: Swedish
word: platina
lang: Tagalog
word: platino
lang: Tajik
word: платина
roman: platina
lang: Tamil
word: வெண்தங்கம்
roman: veṇtaṅkam
lang: Tamil
word: வெண்மம்
roman: veṇmam
lang: Tamil
word: விழுப்பொன்
roman: viḻuppoṉ
lang: Thai
word: ทองคำขาว
roman: tɔɔng-kam-kǎao
lang: Thai
word: แพลทินัม
roman: plɛɛ-tí-nâm
lang: Turkish
word: platin
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: پلاتین
roman: platin
lang: Turkmen
word: platina
lang: Ukrainian
word: пла́тина
roman: plátyna
lang: Urdu
word: پلاٹینم
roman: plāṭīnam
lang: Uzbek
word: platina
lang: Uzbek
word: платина
roman: platina
lang: Vietnamese
word: platin
lang: Vietnamese
word: bạch kim
lang: Volapük
word: platin
lang: Welsh
word: platinwm
lang: Yiddish
word: פּלאַטינום
roman: platinum
lang: Yiddish
word: פּלאַטין
roman: platin