pater

See also: Pater, páter, and páteř

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-

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Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

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Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr

Proto-Italic *patēr

Latin pater

bor.

English pater

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 (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

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

Related terms

• pater cove
• 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

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

Related terms

• paternoster
• Paternoster

Descendants

• → Saramaccan: páiti

Anagrams

• prate

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

• “pater” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Alternative forms

• P, P.

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-

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Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

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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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpät̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpäːt̪er]

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

• pater semper incertus est
• pateressa
• paterfamiliās
• paternus
• patraster
• patricius
• patricus
• patricīda
• patrimōnium
• patrius
• patruus
• patruēlis
• patrēs cōnscrīptī
• patrīmus
• patrītus
• patrōnus

 

Related terms

Related terms

• atta
• paternālis
• paternē
• paternitās
• patria
• patricē
• patriē
• patrimōniālis
• patrimōniolum
• patrium
• patrōcinālis
• patrōcinātus
• patrōcinium
• patrōcinor
• patrōna
• patrōnālis
• patrōnātus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Neapolitan: pate
  • Old Italian: patre
    • Italian: padre
      • → English: padre
  • Sicilian: patri
• Western Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: pèder, pär
    • Ligurian: paire, poæ
    • Old Lombard: patre
      • Lombard: pader, pare
      • Gallo-Italic of Sicily: patr′, paddö, pà, pätri
    • Piedmontese: pare, peri
    • Venetian: pare
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: pâre
    • Old French: pere, pedre
      • Bourguignon: peire
      • Middle French: pere
        • French: père
          • → Dutch: pere
          • → English: père
        • Norman: père, pére, péthe
      • Walloon: pere
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Leonese:
      • Asturian: pá, pai, padre
      • Extremaduran: pairi
      • Leonese: pai
      • Mirandese: pai
      • Navarro-Aragonese:
        • Aragonese: pai
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: padre
      • Galician: padre
      • Portuguese: padre (see there for further descendants)
    • ⇒ Old Galician-Portuguese: pay
      • Galician: pai
      • Portuguese: pai (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Spanish: padre
      • Ladino:

        Hebrew script: פאדרי

        Latin script: padre

      • Spanish: padre
        • → Classical Nahuatl: padre
        • → English: padre
        • → Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa̱lej
        • → Tagalog: pari
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Old Occitan: paire
      • Occitan: paire
      • Catalan: pare
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: pari
    • Romansch: pader
• → Dutch: pater
• → English: pater
  • Tok Pisin: pater
• → Romanian: pater
• → Welsh: pader

See also

• atta
• 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^[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)
    

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-

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Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

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Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr

Proto-Italic *patēr

Latin pater

bor.

Romanian pater

Borrowed from Latin pater.

Noun

pater m

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

Tok Pisin

Etymology

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

Noun

pater

1. priest