Platine

See also: platine and platiné

English

Etymology

From Plate (“the River Plate”) +‎ -ine.

Adjective

Platine (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the River Plate (Río de la Plata) or its basin.

   The Platine War was fought between August of 1851 and February of 1852.

   Paranhos, father of the Barão do Rio Branco, was a foremost statesman of the monarchy and celebrated for his Platine diplomacy.

Translations

of or from River Plate

• Portuguese: platense, rio-platense (pt)
• Spanish: rioplatense (es)

Further reading

• “Platine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• pantile, pentail, pilenta, pit lane, pitlane

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French platine, from French plat (“flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaˈtiːnə/

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• Hyphenation: Pla‧ti‧ne

Noun

Platine f (genitive Platine, plural Platinen)

1. (electronics) printed circuit board, PCB

   Synonyms: Leiterplatte, Flachbaugruppe

2. (clockmaking) component of watches on which cogs are mounted

   Synonym: Werkplatte

3. (photography) lens board

   Synonym: Objektivplatine

4. small plate used for certain early industrial textile machines
5. flat block of metal that is to be rolled out into thin sheets

Declension

Declension of Platine [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Platine	die	Platinen
genitive	einer	der	Platine	der	Platinen
dative	einer	der	Platine	den	Platinen
accusative	eine	die	Platine	die	Platinen

Derived terms

• Hauptplatine

Further reading

• “Platine” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Platine” in Duden online
• “Platine” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Platine”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2025