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pater

See also: Pater, páter, and páteř

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Etymology

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    Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
    Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr?
    Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
    Proto-Italic *patēr
    Latin paterbor.
    English pater

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

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    pater (plural paters)

    1. (formal or humorous) Father.
      Coordinate term: mater
      • 1900, Harry B. Norris (lyrics and music), “Burlington Bertie”:
        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.
      • 1923, Warwick Deeping, The Secret Sanctuary‎[1], e-artnow, published 2021:
        The pater is the kindest-hearted old soul, but there are times when he hates me. I'm a thing which every decent middle-class person hates, a problem, like the unemployed, you know, or the ex-soldier. We are always in such a hurry to forget uncomfortable things, and I'm an uncomfortable thing. Poor old dad; he gets me at breakfast; he gets me in the morning paper.
      • 1985, Mick Hucknall, Neil Moss (lyrics and music), “Holding Back the Years”, in Picture Book, performed by Simply Red:
        Strangled by the wishes of pater / Hoping for the arms of mater / Get to me the sooner or later
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    • Tok Pisin: pater

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    pater

    1. genitive plural of patro

    Dutch

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

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    pater m (plural paters, diminutive patertje n)

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

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    Indonesian

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    Etymology

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

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

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

    1. (Catholicism) priest.
      Synonyms: pastor, rama

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    Latin

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      Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
      Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr?
      Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
      Proto-Italic *patēr
      Latin pater

      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”).

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      pater m (genitive patris); third declension

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

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      Third-declension noun.

      Case Singular Plural
      Nominative pater patrēs
      Genitive patris patrum
      Dative patrī patribus
      Accusative patrem patrēs
      Ablative patre patribus
      Vocative pater patrēs

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      References

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      • “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[2], 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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      Etymology

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        Etymology tree
        Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
        Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr?
        Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
        Proto-Italic *patēr
        Latin paterbor.
        Romanian pater

        Borrowed from Latin pater.

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        pater m

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

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

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        pater

        1. priest
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