Associations to the word «Patera»

Wiktionary

PATERA, noun. A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in a ritual context such as a libation.
PATERA, noun. (architecture) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne