English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /'pe?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /'pe?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

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

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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ['pat?r]

Noun

pater

1. genitive plural of patro

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *pat?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. Doublet of vader and va.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /'pa:.t?r/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pa?ter
• Rhymes: -a:t?r

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *pat?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ['pa.t?r]
• 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.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pat?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. As a titular suffix, shares cognate roots with Old Latin Di?spiter ("Father Jove"), Latin Iuppiter ("Jupiter").

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /'pa.ter/, ['pa.tr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /'pa.ter/, ['pa:.tr]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /'pa.ter/, ['pa.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.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

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

  Arabic: ?‎ (patri)

  Hebrew: ?‎ (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: ‎

    Latin: padre

  • Spanish: padre
    • -> Classical Nahuatl: padre
    • -> English: padre
    • -> Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa?lej
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: pari
  • Romansch: pader
• Sicilian: patri
• Venetian: pare
• -> Dutch: pater
• -> English: pater
  • Tok Pisin: pater
• -> Romanian: pater

See also

• genitor
• m?ter
• par?ns

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)
    

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pater.

Noun

pater m

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

Tok Pisin

Etymology

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

Noun

pater

1. priest