# patro
## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech patro, from Proto-Slavic *pętro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpatro]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

patro n
* floor, storey
* (anatomy) palate (roof of the mouth)

#### Derived terms

* dvoupatrový
* jednopatrový
* měkké patro n (“soft palate”)
* tvrdé patro n (“hard palate”)

#### See also

* podlaží n
* poschodí n

### Further reading

* “patro”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “patro”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “patro”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpatro]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -atro
* Hyphenation: pa‧tro

### Noun

patro (accusative singular patron, plural patroj, accusative plural patrojn)
* father
    Mia patro amas min.My father loves me.
    La patro de mia patro estas mia avo.My father's father is my grandfather.
    La amiko kiun vidis mia patro.The friend whom my father saw.
    La amiko kiu vidis mian patron.The friend who saw my father

#### Synonyms

* (diminutive) patreto
* (nonstandard) patriĉo (“father”)
* (child's term) paĉjo (“dad, daddy”)

#### Hypernyms

* gepatro (“parent”)

#### Coordinate terms

* patrino (“mother”)

#### Derived terms

* vicpatro, duonpatro (“stepfather”)

### Further reading

* patr' in Fundamento de Esperanto by L. L. Zamenhof, 1905

## Ido
### Etymology

From Esperanto patro, from German Pater, Italian padre, Spanish padre, all ultimately from Latin pater, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.tro/

### Noun

patro (plural patri)
* father
* (figuratively) title showing respect
* (Christianity) Father
* (archaic) parent

#### Usage notes

Originally patro meant "parent", while the derivatives patrulo meant "father" and patrino meant "mother", but in later times this was changed so patro meant father, while adding genitoro and matro to mean "parent" and "mother".

#### Synonyms

* papa
* (diminutive) patreto
* (archaic) patrulo

#### Hypernyms

* genitoro (“parent”)

#### Coordinate terms

* matro
* mama
* (diminutive) matreto
* (archaic) patrino

#### Derived terms

* patrala (“fatherly, paternal; patronymic”)
* patratra (“fatherly, paternal”)
* patreto (“daddy”)
* stifa patro/stif-patro (“stepfather”)
* baptopatro (“godfather”)
* bopatro (“father-in-law”)

### Further reading

* patr-o in Ido-English Dictionary by L. H. Dyer, 1924

## Latin
### Etymology

pater (“father”) +‎ -ō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpa.troː/, [ˈpät̪roː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpa.tro/, [ˈpäːt̪ro]

### Verb

patrō (present infinitive patrāre, perfect active patrāvī, supine patrātum); first conjugation
* to execute, conclude, finish, accomplish
    Synonyms: perficiō, dēfungor, cōnficiō, agō, cumulō, absolvō, nāvō, inclūdō, conclūdō, condō, claudō, expleō, fungor, efficiō, exsequor, perpetrō, trānsigō, exhauriō
* to orgasm, ejaculate

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

#### Derived terms

* impetrō
* perpetrō

#### References

* “patro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* patro in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* “patro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* patro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “patro”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
* 1826, Pierre Pierrugues, Glossarium Eroticum Linguae Latinae, pages 381-382.