Patera

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  • n. A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in a ritual context such as a libation.
  • n. A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrifices.
  • n. A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A shallow, circular, saucer-like vessel used by the Romans for pouring libations in sacrificial rites. It corresponds to the Greek phiale.
  • n. In architecture, the representation of a flat round dish in bas-relief, used as an ornament in friezes, etc.
  • n. Patera process. See process.
    • Word Usage
    "The word would have been used in reference to shape only without reference to the vessel's usage, and probably overlapped in meaning with the Latin word patera while at the same time being used to describe shallow bowls as well."
    Cross Reference
    druidical patera   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Berra    Canberra    Cara    Chimera    Clara   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    praestet    pateram    discessit    oikon    locutus   
     
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