different between dish vs patera

English

Etymology

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English dis? (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, and disk.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?sh, IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

dish (plural dishes)

1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Judges v. 25

     She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

2. The contents of such a vessel.

3. (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
4. (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.

5. (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.

6. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
   • 1993, Westwood Studios, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, Virgin Games:

     Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!

7. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.

8. A hollow place, as in a field.
9. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
10. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
11. (slang) Gossip

Synonyms

• (vessel): plate
• (contents): dishful, plate, plateful
• (sexually attractive person): babe, fox

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: dis

Translations

Verb

dish (third-person singular simple present dishes, present participle dishing, simple past and past participle dished)

2. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
3. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
4. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

5. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

Derived terms

• dish out
• dish up

See also

• plate

Anagrams

• HIDs, HSDI, SHID, shid

English

Etymology

Latin patera

Noun

patera (plural paterae)

1. A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in ritual contexts such as libations.
2. in architecture, a circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc.

Latin

Etymology

From pate?.

Noun

patera f (genitive paterae); first declension

1. A broad, flat dish or saucer, used especially for libations

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• patella

Descendants

• ? English: patera

References

• patera in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• patera in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• patera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• patera in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patera in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (patra).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /pat?r?/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /pat?ra/
• Rhymes: -?r?, -r?

Noun

patera (Jawi spelling ??????, plural patera-patera, informal 1st possessive pateraku, impolite 2nd possessive pateramu, 3rd possessive pateranya)

1. leaf (part of a plant)

Synonyms

• daun / ??????

Further reading

• “patera” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin patera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?t?.ra/

Noun

patera f

1. (historical) patera
2. stemmed plate (e.g. a cake stand)

Declension

Further reading

• patera in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• patera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

patera f (plural pateras)

1. small boat or dinghy (especially one used by illegal immigration to cross the Mediterranean Sea)

Derived terms

• piso patera