pater

See also: Pater, páter, and páteř

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin pater ‎(“father”).

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

pater ‎(plural paters)

1. (formal) father

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

pater familias paternal paternity patricide

patrilineage patrilineal patrimony

See alsoEdit

• mater
• padre
• patrician

AnagramsEdit

• apert, apter, petra, Petra, prate, preta, repat, taper, trape

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ter

EtymologyEdit

From Borrowing from Latin pater. Doublette with Dutch vader and va.

NounEdit

pater m ‎(plural paters, diminutive patertje n)

1. father (in the religious sense)

AnagramsEdit

• prate

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr; cognate to Ancient Greek πατήρ ‎(patḗr), Old English fæder (English father), Old Norse faðir, Sanskrit पितृ ‎(pitṛ), Persian پدر ‎(pedar).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ter/

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NounEdit

pater m ‎(genitive patris); third declension

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

InflectionEdit

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pater	patrēs
genitive	patris	patrum
dative	patrī	patribus
accusative	patrem	patrēs
ablative	patre	patribus
vocative	pater	patrēs

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from pater

• paterfamiliās
• paternus
• pater semper incertus est
• patraster
• patricīda

• pātricius
• patricus
• patrimōnium
• patrīmus
• patrītus

• patrius
• patrōnus
• patruēlis
• patruus

Related termsEdit

Related terms

paternālis paternē paternitās patria

patricē patriē patrimōniālis patrimōniolum

patrium patrōcinālis patrōcinātus patrōcinium

patrōcinor patrōna patrōnālis patrōnātus

DescendantsEdit

Aragonese: pai Asturian: pá, pai, padre Catalan: pare Dutch: pater English: pater Esperanto: patro

Extremaduran: pairi Franco-Provençal: pâre French: père (< Old French pere, pedre) Friulian: pari Galician: pai, padre Ido: patro Italian: padre

Neapolitan: pàte Norman: péthe Novial: patro Occitan: paire Old Portuguese: padre Portuguese: pai, padre

Romanian: pater Romansh: pader Sicilian: patri Spanish: padre Venetian: pare Walloon: pere

See alsoEdit

• genitor
• māter
• parēns

ReferencesEdit

• pater in Charlton T. Lewis & 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 Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin pater.

NounEdit

pater m

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

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Tok PisinEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

pater

1. priest