1. A saucer-like vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrifices 
2. A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like

Derived forms: paterae

Encyclopedia: Patera

• bridge over
• bridge partner
• bridge player
• bridge whist
• bridgeable
• bridged-T
• buckbean
• buckbean family
• buckboard
• bucked up
• buckeroo
• bucket
• bucket along
• bucket seat
• bucket shop
• bucket truck
• bucketful
• bucketload
• buckeye
• Buckeye State
• bucking bronco
• Buckingham Palace
• Buckinghamshire
• buckle
• buckle down