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paten

Meaningshallow dish

Common meaning: plate for the bread in Christian communion

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√PAT‘spread out, lie flat or open’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 192, p. 736 · scan
  2. Greekpatanē‘shallow dish’source
  3. Latinpatena‘shallow plate’source
  4. Old Frenchpatene‘communion plate’source
  5. Middle Englishpateyn‘communion plate’source
  6. Englishpaten‘plate for the bread in Christian communion’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Greek patanē ‘shallow dish’.

Roots

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