Other forms: laminated, laminates, laminating
To laminate is to seal a document in clear plastic. Laminate the card, a laminated menu, laminate the sign.
The plastic is sealed with heat and it cannot be undone, which is why laminating anything you may need to amend is a mistake. As a noun, laminate is a layered material — laminate flooring is a printed layer over board. Note that the Latin lamina means a thin sheet or plate.
1verblaminateTo seal a document in clear plastic.
“We laminated the menus so they could be wiped clean after every meal.”
2nounlayeredA layered material.
“The kitchen worktop is made of laminate, not real wood.”
laminate is a sealing in layers.
New Latin laminatus comes from Latin lamina, a thin sheet or plate. Lamella and omelette come from the same thin plate.
Latin
lāmina — thin sheet of metal/other material
New Latin
laminātus
English, today
laminate
1666; New Latin laminātus, perfect passive participle of laminō, from Latin lāmina (“thin sheet of metal/other material”), see -ate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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