patela

English

Alternative forms

• puteli

Etymology

From Hindi [Term?].

Noun

patela (plural patelas)

1. A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges in India.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “patela”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Platea, leap at, palate, paleta, petala

Galician

Etymology

A semi-learned form from Latin patella (“a shallow pan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈtɛla̝/

Noun

patela f (plural patelas)

1. a large flat-bottomed basket
2. a wooden tray
3. limpet (Patella vulgata)

   Synonyms: arneirón, lapa

Derived terms

• pena patela

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “patela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “patela”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “patela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “patela”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “patela”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin patella (“kneecap”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈtɛ.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈtɛ.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈtɛ.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈtɛ.lɐ/

Noun

patela f (plural patelas)

1. (anatomy) kneecap

   Synonym: (dated) rótula

Hypernyms

• osso

Related terms

• joelho