Noun: paten
| Singular | paten |
| Plural | patens |
Sample Sentences
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He longed […] to stand aloof from the altar, forgotten by the people, his shoulders covered with a humeral veil, holding the paten within its folds […]. [1916, James Joyce, chapter IV, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:]
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An enameled miniature of Christ is set in the center of a jeweled alabaster paten, the plate that holds the bread during Communion services. [1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 41:]
Nouns inflected like paten
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English patene, from Old French patene, from Latin patina, from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē). Doublet of patina, patine, and patena. See: Middle English Nouns '
patene', Latin Nouns '
patina', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πατάνη'.