pater

See also: Pater, páter, and páteř

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪtɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪtə/
  • Audio (Berkshire, UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

pater (plural paters)

  1. (formal or humorous) Father.
    Coordinate term: mater
    • 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.
    • 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

Descendants
  • Tok Pisin: pater

See also

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈpatɛr]

Noun

pater

  1. genitive plural of patro

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpaː.tər/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: pa‧ter
  • Rhymes: -aːtər

Noun

pater m (plural paters, diminutive patertje n)

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

Derived terms
  • bloedpater

Descendants
  • → Saramaccan: páiti

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

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

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

Noun

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

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

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpät̪ɛr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpäːt̪er]
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

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.

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

Derived terms
Related terms

Descendants

See also

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, 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
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