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

Patera (planetary nomenclature) is an irregular crater, or a complex crater with scalloped edges on a celestial body. Some examples:

• 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 on Lakshmi Planum, 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 on Mars (Tharsis region)
• Uranius Patera, volcano on Mars located in the Tharsis quadrangle
• many other

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