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English
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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): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
pater (plural paters)
- (formal or humorous) Father.
- Coordinate term: mater
- 1900, Harry B. Norris, “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, 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, “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
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Descendants
- Tok Pisin: pater
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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
pater
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Doublet of vader and va.
Pronunciation
Noun
pater m (plural paters, diminutive patertje n)
- (Roman Catholicism) father (as a religious title)
Derived terms
- bloedpater
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Descendants
- → Saramaccan: páiti
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
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Latin
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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.tɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpaː.t̪er]
Noun
pater m (genitive patris); third declension
- father (male parent)
- head of household
- parent
- forefather
- priest
- honorific title
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
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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)
- in our fathers' time: memoria patrum nostrorum
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Romanian
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Noun
pater m
- 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
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