pater

See also: Pater, páter, and páteř

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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)

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 termsEdit

Derived terms

• pater familias
• paternal
• paternity
• patricide

• patrilineage
• patrilineal
• patrimony

See alsoEdit

• mater
• padre
• patrician

AnagramsEdit

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

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ter

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/, [ˈpa.tɛr]

• Audio (Classical)

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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 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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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed 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