padre

See also: Padre

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑdɹeɪ/

Etymology

From Italian padre, Spanish padre, Portuguese padre (“priest”), from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, pater, and père.

Noun

padre (plural padres)

1. A military clergyman.
2. A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.

Anagrams

• drape, dreap, pared, raped, repad

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem.

Noun

padre (plural padres)

1. father

Synonyms

• pá

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Chavacano

Noun

padre

1. priest

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Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• padreh

Etymology

From Spanish padre (“father, priest”), from Latin pater.

Noun

pādre

1. a Christian priest

References

• Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, page 229.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese padre, from Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. father

   Synonym: pai

2. priest (Catholic or Orthodox)

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Italian

Etymology

From Old Italian patre, from Latin patrem, accusative form of pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.dre/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -adre
• Hyphenation: pà‧dre

Noun

padre m (plural padri)

1. father

Derived terms

• vicepadre

Descendants

• → English: padre

See also

• (regional) babbo
• genitore
• madre
• papà

Further reading

• padre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• padre in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Anagrams

• perda, preda

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Ladino

Noun

padre m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פאדרי‎)

1. father

Coordinate terms

• madre (מאדרי)

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.d̪ɾe/

Noun

padre m (plural padres, feminine madre, feminine plural madres)

1. father
   • 13th century C.E., Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, , E codex, cantiga 4 (facsimile):

     Eſta e como Santa maria guardou ao fillo do judeu que non ardeſſe que ſeu padre deitara no forno.

     This one is (about) how Holy Mary protected from being burnt the son of the Jew whose father had lain him in the furnace.

Descendants

• Galician: padre
• Portuguese: padre (see there for further descendants)

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Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin patrem, singular accusative of pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpa.dɾe]

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. father
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 11v.

     Vinieró los ermanos de ioſeph Que murio ſo padre. q́çab mébrara ſo padre q́l fẏziemos. e tornarnos a todel mal q́l fẏziemos.

     [When] Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, [they said], “Perhaps he will remember his father [and] what we did to him, and he will repay us all the wrong we did to him.”

Coordinate terms

• madre

Descendants

• Ladino: padre
• Spanish: padre
  • → Classical Nahuatl: padre
  • → English: padre
  • → Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa̱lej
  • → Tagalog: pari

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Portuguese

padres

Alternative forms

• Pe. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese padre (“father”), from Latin pater, patrem (“father”), from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ðɾɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.dɾi/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.dɾe/
• Hyphenation: pa‧dre

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

2. (ecclesiastical) priest (Christian clergyman who performs masses)
4. (archaic) father (male parent)

   Synonyms: pai, papai

Descendants

• → English: padre
• → Hindi: पादरी (pādrī)
• → Japanese: 破天連 (bateren)
• → Konkani: पाद्रि (pādri)
• → Malay: paderi
  • Indonesian: padri
• → Malayalam: പാതിരി (pātiri)
• → Sinhalese: පාදිලියා (pādiliyā)
• → Swahili: padre, padri, padiri
• → Thai: บาทหลวง (bàat-lǔuang)

See also

• pastor
• reverendo
• madre

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin patrem, singular accusative of pater, patris, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/, [ˈpa.ð̞ɾe]

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Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. (family) father

   Synonyms: papá, progenitor

2. (religion) father

   Synonyms: cura, sacerdote

Hypernyms

• abuelo
• bisabuelo

Hyponyms

• hijo
• nieto

Coordinate terms

• madre f

Derived terms

• compadre
• cuando seas padre comerás huevos
• de padre y muy señor mío
• Día del Padre
• nunca digas de este agua no beberé, ni este cura no es mi padre
• padre adoptivo
• padre biológico
• padre nuestro
• Santo Padre

 

Descendants

• → Classical Nahuatl: padre
• → English: padre
• → Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa̱lej
• → Tagalog: pari

Adjective

padre (plural padres) (superlative padrísimo)

1. (Mexico, slang) cool, acceptable, easy

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:guay

See also

• esposo
• marido
• parentesco
• poca madre

Further reading

• “padre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

• pared, preda

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Swahili

Alternative forms

• padri, padiri

Etymology

From Portuguese padre.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Noun

padre (ma class, plural mapadre)

1. clergyman, priest (especially a Christian one)

   Synonym: (only a Christian priest) kasisi

2. (chess) bishop