pater

See also: Pater, páter, and páteř

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pater (“father”).

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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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pater. Doublet of vader and va.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ter

Noun

pater m (plural paters, diminutive patertje n)

1. father (in the religious sense)

Anagrams

• prate

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Compare Oscan 𐌐𐌀𐌕𐌝𐌓 (patír), Old Armenian հայր (hayr), Old Irish athair, Ancient Greek πατήρ (patḗr), Old English fæder, Old Norse faðir, Sanskrit पितृ (pitṛ), Old Persian 𐎱𐎡𐎫𐎠 (pitā), Tocharian A pācar.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpa.tɛr]

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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

Inflection

Third declension.

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

Derived terms

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