PLATE Copy link • PLATE 1. s. A flat, broad piece of metal, lamina; bractea (very thin): a copper-plate, *lamina aenea: copper-plate (i. e., the impression), *pictura linearis per laminas aeneas expressa (Ern.); *imago aere excusa (Wyttenbach); *imago aeneae laminae ope descripta, expressa (Kraft). A platter, catillus or catillum. Wrought gold or silver, vasa argentea, aurea; or simply argentum, aurum; supellex argentea, aurea: chased plate, argentum caelatum: in castris Pompeii videre licuit magnum argenti pondus (a great quanty of plate, Caes., B.C., 3, 96). 2. v. *argento obducere; *inducere rei argentum, aurum or bracteas auri, argenti: plated, bracteatus (Sen.).