English
plating
Plating comes from Old English platung ‘plate, thin piece of metal’.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150platung1‘plate, thin piece of metal’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*platynge1reconstructed
- Englishearliest quotation 1912plating1
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English plating
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1912, J. Bernard Walker, An Unsinkable Titanic: “Her fragility and vulnerability lie in the fact that…”.
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150platungWiktionary, English plating‘plate, thin piece of metal’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*platyngeWiktionary, English platingreconstructed
- Englishearliest quotation 1912platingWiktionary, English plating. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1912, J. Bernard Walker, An Unsinkable Titanic: “Her fragility and vulnerability lie in the fact that…”
Formed from plate + -ing
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- ‘flat’
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Vulgar Latin *plattus ‘flat’
Medieval Latin plata
Old French plate ‘a flat metal disk’
Middle English plate
English plate
Every English word from Old English platung
Today it means
noun An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “plating”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Old English platung / plating