Definitions
a fine coating of oxide (produced by oxidation over a long period of time) on the surface of a metal (particularly copper)
Word origin
Borrowed from Italian patina, from Latin patina (“dish, pan”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē), either from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread”) or from Pre-Greek. Doublet of paten, patena, and patine.
Used in a sentence
“he enjoys a patina of respect by the police, despite being an ex-criminal”
“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[…]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Aged surface film”6 letters
02“Aged surface sheen”6 letters
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