English

silver plate

silver + plate

A compound of silver + plate

Proto-Germanic *silubrą ‘silver’

Proto-West Germanic *silubr ‘silver’

Old English seolfor ‘silver’

Middle English silver ‘silver’

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

Today it means

noun A thin layer of silver applied to the surface of an object made of another metal.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / silver plate