The Collaborative International Dictionary
patin
Paten \Pat"en\, n. [LL. patina, patena, fr. L. patina, patena, a pan; cf. L. patere to be open, E. patent, and Gr. ? a kind of flat dish: cf. F. pat[`e]ne. Cf. Patina.]
A plate. [Obs.]
(Eccl.) The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover.
Wiktionary
patin
n. (alternative form of patine English)
Wikipedia
Patin
Patin may refer to:
People- Charles Patin (1633–1693), French physician and numismatist
- Charlotte-Catherine Patin, 17th- and 18th-century French writer and art critic
- Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin, 17th-century French numismatist
- Guy Patin (1601–1672), French doctor and man of letters
- Henri Patin (1793–1876), French writer and translator from ancient Greek and Latin
- Jacques Patin (died 1587), French painter, decorator, illustrator and engraver
- Madeleine Patin (1610–1682), French moralist
- Mathias Patin (born 1974), French volleyball player
- Patin, Burkina Faso
Usage examples of "patin".
Guy Patin, Dean of the Faculty of Paris, Professor at the Royal College, Author of the Antimonial Martyrology, a wit and a man of sense and learning, who died almost two hundred years ago, had come to the same conclusion, though the chemists of his time boasted of their remedies.