pater

See also: Pater, páter, and páteř

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and père.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪtə/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

pater (plural paters)

1. (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.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• pater familias
• paternal
• paternity
• patriarch
• patricide
• patrifocality
• patriline

• patrilineage
• patrilineal
• patrilinear
• patrilocality
• patrimony
• patripotestal

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: pater

See also

• mater
• padre
• patrician

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpatɛr]

Noun

pater

1. genitive plural of patro

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Doublet of vader and va.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.tər/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ter
• Rhymes: -aːtər

Noun

pater m (plural paters, diminutive patertje n)

1. (Roman Catholicism) father (as a religious title)

Derived terms

• bloedpater

Related terms

• paternoster
• Paternoster

Anagrams

• prate

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpa.tər]
• Hyphenation: pa‧têr

Noun

patêr (plural, first-person possessive paterku, second-person possessive patermu, third-person possessive paternya)

1. (Catholicism) priest.

   Synonyms: pastor, rama

Further reading

• “pater” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. As a titular suffix, shares cognate roots with Old Latin Diēspiter (“Father Jove”), Latin Iuppiter (“Jupiter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpa.t̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpaː.t̪ɛr]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpa.der]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

pater m (genitive patris); third declension

1. father (male parent)
2. head of household
3. parent
4. forefather
5. priest
6. honorific title

Declension

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 terms

• pateressa
• paterfamiliās
• paternus
• pater semper incertus est
• patraster
• patricīda
• patricius
• patricus
• patrimōnium
• patrīmus
• patrītus
• patrius
• patrōnus
• patruēlis
• patruus

 

Related terms

Related terms

• paternālis
• paternē
• paternitās
• patria

• patricē
• patriē
• patrimōniālis
• patrimōniolum

• patrium
• patrōcinālis
• patrōcinātus
• patrōcinium

• patrōcinor
• patrōna
• patrōnālis
• patrōnātus

Descendants

• Emilian: pèder
• Franco-Provençal: pâre
• Ligurian: poæ
• Lombard: pader
• Mozarabic:

  Arabic: بَّتْرِ‎ (patri)

  Hebrew: פּאתריִ‎ (patri)

• Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
  • Aragonese: pai
• Neapolitan: pàte
• Old French: pere, pedre
  • Bourguignon: peire
  • Middle French: pere
    • French: père
      • → Dutch: pere
      • → English: père
  • Norman: père, pére, péthe
  • Walloon: pere
• Old Italian: patre
  • Italian: padre
    • → English: padre
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: pá, pai, padre
  • Extremaduran: pairi
  • Leonese: pai
  • Mirandese: pai
• Old Occitan: paire
  • Catalan: pare
  • Occitan: paire
• Old Portuguese: padre
  • Galician: padre
  • Portuguese: padre (see there for further descendants)
  • ⇒ Old Portuguese: pay
    • Galician: pai
    • Portuguese: pai
      • Guinea-Bissau Creole: pai
      • Indo-Portuguese: pai
      • Kabuverdianu: pai
      • Kristang: pai
      • Sãotomense: pe
        • Annobonese: pe
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Ladino:

    Hebrew: פאדרי‎

    Latin: padre

  • Spanish: padre
    • → Classical Nahuatl: padre
    • → English: padre
    • → Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa̱lej
    • → Tagalog: pari
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: pari
  • Romansch: pader
• Sicilian: patri
• Venetian: pare
• → Dutch: pater
• → English: pater
  • Tok Pisin: pater
• → Romanian: pater

See also

• genitor
• māter
• parēns

References

• 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)
    

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pater.

Noun

pater m

1. father (term of address for a Christian priest)

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

English pater (Christian priests are often referred to as 'Father'), from Latin pater.

Noun

pater

1. priest