latten

Meaning

Noun

• An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.
• Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets.

Origin

• From Middle English laten, latun, latoun, from Old French laton, laiton, from Arabic لَاطُون, itself from . See Turkish altın, Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣, Karakhanid اَلْتُونْ.