Patera Definition

pätə-rə, pătə-
paterae, patera
noun
A shallow bowl or dish, especially one used ceremonially by the ancient Romans in pouring libations.
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A shallow crater on the surface of a solar system body, having an irregular or scalloped rim, caused either by past volcanic activity or by the impact of a much smaller solar system body.
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Other Word Forms of Patera

Noun

Singular:
patera
Plural:
paterae

Origin of Patera

  • Latin perhaps from patina shallow dish (influenced by crātēra vessel for mixing wine with water) paten

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Patera Sentence Examples

  • On the other hand, silver and silver sulphide are readily amalgamated; and while they are not dissolved in the Patera process, they are in the Russell process.

  • Patera (Father) Silk, the protagonist, is a priest and auger; he divines the intention of the gods through the reading of animal entrails.

  • Ausonius, for instance, apostrophizes the rhetorician Attius Patera as sprung from a race of Druids.

  • It was usually a youthful figure, dressed in a short, high-girt tunic, holding in one hand a rhyton (drinking-horn), in the other a patera (cup).

  • The use of sodium hyposulphite as solvent, and sodium sulphide as precipitant, was proposed in 1846 by Hauch and in 1850 by Percy, and put into practice in 1858 by Patera (Patera process); calcium hyposulphite with calcium polysulphide was first used by Kiss in 1860 (Kiss process, now obsolete); sodium hyposulphite with calcium polysulphide was adopted about 1880 by 0.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAT

Words Ending With

ARAERA

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Words Starting With P and Ending With A

Starts With P & Ends With AStarts With PA & Ends With AStarts With P & Ends With RA

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With A