Patera (disambiguation)

A patera was a saucer-shaped Roman drinking vessel. In modern usage, it describes something similar to a shallow bowl or deep dish and may refer to:

Architecture

• Patera (architecture), an ornamental element.

Astronomy

• Patera (planetary nomenclature), an irregular crater, or a complex crater with scalloped edges on a celestial body.

People

• Patera Silk, fictional character in The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
• Adolf Patera (1819-1894), Bohemian chemist, mineralogist and metallurgist
• Dennis Patera (b. 1945), American football player
• Jack Patera (1933–2018), former American football player and coach in the National Football League
• Ken Patera (b. 1942), retired professional wrestler, Olympic weightlifter, and Strongman competitor from Portland, Oregon
• Pavel Patera (b. 1971), professional ice hockey player from the Czech Republic
• Anthony Pateras (b. 1979), multidisciplinary musician in Melbourne, Australia
• Raúl Pateras Pescara de Castelluccio (1890-1966), marquis of Pateras-Pescara and an Argentine lawyer and inventor

Zoology

• Patera (gastropod), an American genus of snails

Other Uses

• A small decorative plate fixed to the base of a clock.