different between relief vs patera

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???li?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f

Etymology 1

From Old French relief (“assistance”), from Old French relever (“to relieve”), from Latin relevare (“to raise up, make light”). See also relieve.

Noun

relief (countable and uncountable, plural reliefs)

1. The removal of stress or discomfort.
2. The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
3. Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another.
4. The person who takes over a shift for another.
5. Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
6. (law) Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
7. A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief.
8. A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor.

Synonyms

• (removal of stress and discomfort): ease, alleviation, liss, respite
• (feeling of removal of stress and discomfort): ease, alleviation, liss
• (person who takes over a shift): stand-in, substitute, backup, fill-in

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian rilevare (“to raise”), from Latin relevare (“to raise”).

Noun

relief (countable and uncountable, plural reliefs)

1. A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
2. The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color.
3. The difference of elevations on a surface.

   the relief on that part of the Earth's surface

4. (heraldry) The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides.

Synonyms

• (type of artwork): embossing
• (difference of elevations on a surface): texture, topography

Derived terms

• relief map

Translations

Adjective

relief (comparative more relief, superlative most relief)

1. (of a surface) Characterized by surface inequalities.
2. Of or used in letterpress.

Anagrams

• Leifer, e-filer, liefer, refile, relfie, relife

French

Etymology

Old French, from relever.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.lj?f/

Noun

relief m (plural reliefs)

1. projection, relief
2. (geography, mineralogy) relief, surface elevation
3. (figuratively) contrast, definition, offset (against something else)
4. (sculpture) relief

Derived terms

• bas-relief

Further reading

• “relief” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From French relief, from Old French relief (“assistance”), from relever (“to relieve”), from Latin relevare (“to raise up, make light”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?l.j?f/

Noun

relief m inan

1. relief

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French relief.

Noun

relief n (plural reliefuri)

1. relief (difference of elevations on the Earth's surface)

Related terms

• reliefa
• reliefare
• reliefat

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