patera (English, noun)
expansion: patera (plural paterae)
Senses:
glosses: A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in ritual contexts such as libations.
topics: architecture
glosses: A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc.
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: paterae
tags: plural