père
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pere"
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French père (“father”), from Latin pater. Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and pater.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
père (plural pères)
- A priest of the Roman Catholic Church, especially a French one. Also used as a title preceding the name of such a priest.
- Sr. - Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the father is being referred to rather than the son (junior, fils).
Usage notes edit
- Current usage of differentiating fathers and sons is borrowed from French; hence this term follows the name as it does in French grammar.
See also edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French pere, from Old French pedre, pedra, pere, from Latin patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /pɛʁ/
audio (France) (file) - (Quebec) IPA(key): /paɛ̯ʁ/
audio (Quebec) (file) - (mostly obsolete) IPA(key): /peɾ(ə)/
- (Louisiana) IPA(key): /pæɾ/
- Rhymes: -ɛʁ
- Homophones: pères, pair, pairs, paire, paires, perd, perds
Noun edit
père m (plural pères)
- father (parent)
- Coordinate term: (mother) mère
- father (clergyman)
- Sr. (senior) (postnominal title used to indicate a father that shares the same name as the son)
- Antonym: (Jr.) fils
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “père”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French pedre, pere, from Latin pater, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Noun edit
père m (plural pères)
Alternative forms edit
Hypernyms edit
Coordinate terms edit
- (gender): mère
Etymology 2 edit
From Old French peire, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as feminine singular.
Noun edit
père f (plural pères)