pater
Contents
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin pater (“father”).
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪtə/
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
NounEdit
pater (plural paters)
- (formal or humorous) father
- 1900, Harry B. Norris, Burlington Bertie (song)
- Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay
He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way
He spends the good oof that his pater has made
Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.
- Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay
- 1900, Harry B. Norris, Burlington Bertie (song)
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
DescendantsEdit
- Tok Pisin: pater
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
- Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap
CzechEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin pater. Doublet of vader and va.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pater m (plural paters, diminutive patertje n)
- father (in the religious sense)
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pater m (genitive patris); third declension
- father (male parent)
- head of household
- parent
- forefather
- priest
- honorific title
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pater | patrēs |
| Genitive | patris | patrum |
| Dative | patrī | patribus |
| Accusative | patrem | patrēs |
| Ablative | patre | patribus |
| Vocative | pater | patrēs |
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Related terms
DescendantsEdit
- Emilian: pèder
- Franco-Provençal: pâre
- Ligurian: poæ
- Lombard: pader
- Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
- Aragonese: pai
- Neapolitan: pàte
- Old French: pere, pedre
- Old Italian: patre
- Old Leonese: [Term?]
- Old Occitan: paire
- Old Portuguese: padre
- Old Spanish: [Term?]
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sicilian: patri
- Venetian: pare
- → Dutch: pater
- → English: pater
- Tok Pisin: pater
- → Romanian: pater
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- pater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pater in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- in our fathers' time: memoria patrum nostrorum
- son of such and such a father, mother: patre, (e) matre natus
- my dear father: pater optime or carissime, mi pater (vid. sect. XII. 10)
- to be disinherited: exheredari a patre
- (ambiguous) to consult the senators on a matter: patres (senatum) consulere de aliqua re (Sall. Iug. 28)
- in our fathers' time: memoria patrum nostrorum