Patera vs Patena - What's the difference?
patera | patena |
A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in a ritual context such as a libation.
(architecture) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc.
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A paten (plate for the host in the Eucharist).
A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon.
(Webster 1913)
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