Noun: platinum
| Singular | platinum |
| Plural | platinums |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like platinum
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-us
4. Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us
5. Proto-Hellenic *plətús
6. Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús)bor.
7. Vulgar Latin *plattusder.
8. Spanish plata
9. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
10. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
11. Proto-Italic *-īnos
12. Latin -īnus
13. Spanish -ina
14. Spanish platina
15. English -um
16. English platinum
17. 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. See: Spanish Nouns '
platina'.