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plateado

silver-coloured

adjective plah-teh-AH-doh Rare
Descriptions & Qualities Colors

Origin: From plata ('silver'), from a Vulgar Latin or pre-Roman source, possibly Iberian.

Also means

silvery

Usage Note

Plateado means 'silver-coloured' or 'silver-plated' and comes from plata (silver). It contrasts with dorado (gold-coloured). When it describes a plating process, as in cobre plateado ('silver-plated copper'), it implies a thin coating of silver over another metal. The verb platear means 'to silver-plate'.

Examples

"El pez tenía unas escamas de color plateado brillante."

Natural Translation

The fish had brilliantly silver-coloured scales.

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