The corpus record — Latin

patera

patera · f

a broad

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Where it lives

Amphitruo 18 · 18.31/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 4 · 15.22/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 2 · 4.2/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Carmina 4 · 3.01/10k

Densest 12 of 73 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pătĕra — Lewis & Short

pătĕra, ae, f.pateo,

I a broad, flat dish or saucer, used esp. in offerings; a libationsaucer or bowl (cf.: simpulum, simpuvium), Varr. L. L. 5, § 122 Müll.; cf. Macr. S. 5, 21: aurea, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 104; 2, 2, 128: humani corporis sanguinem in pateris circumtulisse, Sall. C. 22, 1: Themistoclem aiunt, cum taurum immolavisset, excepisse sanguinem paterā, etc., Cic. Brut. 11, 43: vinaque marmoreas paterā fundebat in aras, Ov. M. 9, 160; Hor. S. 1, 6, 118: pateris libare et auro, golden cups, Verg. G. 2, 192: pateram perplovere in sacris cum dicitur significat pertusam esse, Fest. p. 250 Müll.

In the wild

pateram Plautus, Amphitruo 1.3
paterae Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 p6
pateris Petronius, Satyricon 133
patera Cicero, De Divinatione 1.46.p1
pateris Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.12.1.4
pateris Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.8.16

6 of 161 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. patera (scan p. 512; entry #8370).

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