patena
patena is the alternative spelling of paten.
patena is the alternative spelling of patana.
Meaning of paten
Noun
paten (plural patens)
- The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist.
- 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
- Any shallow dish found in an archaeological site.
Meaning of patana
Noun
patana (plural patanas)
- A type of open, hilly grassland, especially in Sri Lanka, often formed after the clearing of jungle.
- A considerable area of the jungle vegetation (rain forest) of the montane zone has been destroyed and is now either tea plantation or native patana grassland.1990, P. J. Skerman, F. Riveros, Tropical Grasses, →ISBN, page 19
Forms of patena
| plural | patenas |
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Origin of patena
From Ecclesiastical Latin patena.
From Sanskrit पतन (patana).
Questions about patena
- What is patena the alternative spelling of?
- Patena is the alternative spelling of paten.
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