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

• wedge
• wedge bone
• wedge heel
• wedge shape
• wedge-shaped
• wedged
• wedgie
• Wedgwood
• wedlock
• Wednesday
• wee
• wee small voice
• weed
• weed out
• weed-whacker
• weeder
• weedkiller
• weedless
• weeds
• weedy
• week
• week after week
• week by week
• week from Monday
• weekday