Patera (disambiguation)
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A patera was a saucer-shaped Roman drinking vessel. In modern usage it describes something similar to a shallow bowl or deep dish.
Patera may also refer to:
- A small decorative plate fixed to the base of a clock
Astronomy
In astronomy, a patera is a shallow circular feature on the surface of a planet or similar body.
- List of paterae on Io, Jupiter's moon
- Dazhbog Patera, volcanic feature on Jupiter's moon Io
- Ra Patera, active extraterrestrial volcano located on Io
- Tawhaki Patera, active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
- Thomagata Patera, volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
- Tupan Patera, active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
- Cleopatra Patera on Venus
- Eden Patera on Mars
- Jaszai Patera on Venus
- Orcus Patera on Mars
- Peneus Patera on Mars
- Pityusa Patera, feature in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars
- Sacajawea Patera is a large, elongate caldera located in Western Ishtar Terra on the smooth plateau of Lakshmi Planum, on the planet Venus
- Sachs Patera on Venus
- Siddons Patera on Venus
- Tyrrhena Patera, central depression of a large volcano in the Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle of Mars
- Ulysses Patera is a Martian volcano
- Uranius Patera, volcano on Mars located in the Tharsis quadrangle
Zoology
- Patera (gastropod), an American genus of snails
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 (b. 1933), 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
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