Definition of Patera

1. n. A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies.

Definition of Patera

1. Noun. A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in a ritual context such as a libation. ¹

2. Noun. (architecture) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Patera

1. a type of Roman shallow dish [n PATERAE]

Medical Definition of Patera

1. Origin: L, fr. Patere to lie open. 1. A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies. 2. A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Patera

patented
patentee
patentees
patentese
patentholder
patentholders
patenting
patentless
patentlike
patently
patentor
patentors
patents
pater
pater familias
patera (current term)
paterae
paterero
patereroes
patereros
paterfamilias
paterfamiliases
paternal
paternal age
paternal aunt
paternal aunts
paternal behaviour
paternal cousin
paternal cousins
paternal custody

Literary usage of Patera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1878)
"I HAVE great pleasure in offering to the Royal Society of Literature the following account of a silver-gilt patera [_<f>id\ri] in the possession of the ..."

2. Handbook of Metallurgy by Carl Schnabel (1905)
"Hence the method is generally combined with the patera process. The Kiss process is worked like the patera process and the yield of silver is 70 to 85 per ..."

3. The Metallurgy of the Non-ferrous Metals by William Gowland (1914)
"(4) patera Process.—This process is based on the solubility ... The ore to be treated by the patera process should not contain much copper, or lead, ..."

4. American Journal of Archaeology by Archaeological Institute of America (1887)
"But, unfortunately, we know of no other which gives us precisely this scene. In a silver patera of the Egyptian style from ..."

5. The Metallurgy of Lead & Silver by Henry Francis. Collins (1900)
"The patera and Kiss Processes. History.—The solution of silver chloride in ... and first carried into practice by von patera at Joachimsthal (Bohemia) in 1^ ..."

6. The Metallurgy of Lead & Silver by Henry Francis Collins (1900)
"The patera and Kiss Processes. History.—The solution of silver chloride in sodium ... carried into practice by von patera at Joachimsthal (Bohemia) in 1858. ..."

7. Catalogue of Specimens: Illustrative of the Composition and Manufacture of by Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain), Henry Thomas De La Beche, Trenham Recks (1871)
"patera of red ware (fig. 83), 8 inches in diameter, with ivy leaves in relief laid on ... A patera of precisely the same kind, found at the Palace of the ..."

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