patera

From Latin patera.

patera (plural paterae)

1. A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in ritual contexts such as libations.
2. (architecture) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc.
3. The caldera or crater (dish-shaped depression) atop a volcano, especially an extraterrestrial one; also used in the names of extraterrestrial volcanoes which have such a caldera.
   • 2020, James R. Zimbelman, David A. Crown, Peter J. Mouginis-Mark, Tracy K. P. Gregg, The Volcanoes of Mars, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 116:

     What caused the transitions from explosive to effusive volcanism in the Circum-Hellas Volcanic Province generally and during the eruptive lifetimes of individual highland patera volcanoes?

   • 2021, Tracy K. P. Gregg, Rosaly M. Lopes, Sarah A. Fagents, Planetary Volcanism across the Solar System, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 89:

     Note that the eroded plains materials to the right of the patera show no signs of individual lava flows.

Apparently a nominal formation from pateō (“to be open, gape”).^[1]

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patera f (genitive paterae); first declension

1. A broad, flat dish, saucer, bowl, or vessel, used especially for libations during a religious rite or sacrifice
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.60-61:

     Ipsa, tenēns dextrā pateram, pulcherrima Dīdō
     candentis vaccae media inter cornua fundit, [...].

     Most beautiful Dido herself, holding the [ritual] vessel in her right [hand], pours [a libation] in-between the horns of a pure white cow [before it is sacrificed to the gods].
     (See: Patera.)

First-declension noun.

• patella

• ⇒ Catalan: plàtera
• → English: patera

• patina

• “patera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "patera", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• patera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “patera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “patera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Sanskrit पत्र (patra).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ˈpatərə/ [ˈpa.t̪ə.rə]
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ˈpatəra/ [ˈpa.t̪ə.ra]
• Rhymes: -ərə, -rə
• Hyphenation: pa‧te‧ra

patera (Jawi spelling ڤاترا, plural patera-patera)

1. leaf (part of a plant)

   Synonym: daun

• “patera” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Learned borrowing from Latin patera.

• IPA^(key): /paˈtɛ.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: pa‧te‧ra

patera f

1. (historical) patera
2. stemmed plate (e.g. a cake stand)

• patera in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• patera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /paˈteɾa/ [paˈt̪e.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: pa‧te‧ra

patera f (plural pateras)

1. small boat or dinghy (especially one used by illegal immigration to cross the Mediterranean Sea)

• “patera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024