pater
English
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Borrowed from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and père.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪtə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]pater (plural paters)
- (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
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[edit]- Tok Pisin: pater
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]- Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap
Czech
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Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Doublet of vader and va.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pater m (plural paters, diminutive patertje n)
- (Roman Catholicism) father (as a religious title)
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Saramaccan: páiti
Anagrams
[edit]Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]patêr
Further reading
[edit]- “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
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Alternative forms
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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
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpät̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpäːt̪er]
Noun
[edit]pater m (genitive patris); third declension
- father (male parent)
- head of household
- parent
- forefather
- priest
- honorific title
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pater | patrēs |
| genitive | patris | patrum |
| dative | patrī | patribus |
| accusative | patrem | patrēs |
| ablative | patre | patribus |
| vocative | pater | patrēs |
Derived terms
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Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Western Romance:
- → Dutch: pater
- → English: pater
- Tok Pisin: pater
- → Romanian: pater
- → Welsh: pader
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “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)
- in our fathers' time: memoria patrum nostrorum
Romanian
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Noun
[edit]pater m
- father (term of address for a Christian priest)
Tok Pisin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English pater (Christian priests are often referred to as 'Father'), from Latin pater.
Noun
[edit]pater
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