The story
- Latin · borrowed frompatera“dish, saucer”
- English todaypatress
Words from the same roots
Latinpatera all →
patera
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
patress
Today it means: An adapting plate or mounting used to fix an object to a surface or a substrate where the difference in character between the object and that to which it is mounted prevents direct mounting, e.g. in fitting a flat panel to a curved surface. Full definition →
Latin patera