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

• retest
• rethink
• retiarius
• reticence
• reticent
• reticently
• retick
• reticle
• reticular
• reticular activating system
• reticular formation
• reticulate
• reticulated python
• reticulation
• reticule
• Reticulitermes
• Reticulitermes flanipes
• Reticulitermes lucifugus
• reticulocyte
• reticuloendothelial system
• reticulum
• retie
• retina
• retinaculum
• retinal