Paten vs Patina - What's the difference?
paten | patina |
The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist.
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(archaeology) Any shallow dish found in an archaeological site.
(originally) A paten, flat type of dish
The color or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
(figurative) A gloss or superficial layer.
* 2012 , Alison Winter, Memory: Fragments of a Modern History
Of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
As nouns the difference between paten and patina
is that paten is the plate used to hold the host during the eucharist while patina is (originally) a paten, flat type of dish.As a adjective patina is
of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.paten
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(wikipedia paten)Noun
(en noun)patina
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(wikipedia patina)Noun
- 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
