# fader
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfeɪdə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From fade (verb) +‎ -er.

#### Noun

fader (plural faders)
* A device used to raise and lower sound volume.
* (computer graphics) A program or algorithm for fading out colors.

##### Derived terms

* crossfader
* postfader
* prefader

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From fade (adjective) +‎ -er.

#### Adjective

fader
* comparative form of fade: more fade

### Anagrams

* Defra, Freda, fared, fear'd, feard

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

### Noun

fader c (singular definite faderen, plural indefinite fædre)
* (now formal) father
* A term of address for a Christian priest.

#### Synonyms

* far

#### Derived terms

* fædreland (home country)

#### See also

* moder
* mor
* broder
* bror
* søster

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan fadar.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

fader
* (reflexive, informal) to get stuck with

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “fader”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

fader
* comparative degree of fade

### Adjective

fader
* inflection of fade:
** strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
** strong genitive/dative feminine singular
** strong genitive plural

## Luxembourgish
### Adjective

fader
* feminine dative of fad

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

#### Alternative forms

* fæder, faderr, fadir, fadyr, fadur, feder, vader, veder, faðer, father, ffader

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa(ː)dər/, /ˈfaðər/, /ˈfɛ(ː)dər/

#### Noun

fader (plural faders or fadres, genitive fader or faders or fadres)
* A father (male direct ancestor of someone or some creature)
* An indirect male ancestor (of some being)
* The inventor or originator of an idea, nation or lineage.
* A spiritual superordinate, teacher, or leader:
** A confessor (individual who one offers confessions to);
** One of the Church Fathers; an author of patristic writings.
* God/Jesus as father (of Jesus, as inventor, or as leader).
* An appellation signifying the speaker's inferiority.
* (rare) A secular superordinate or leader.
* (rare) A member of the Roman senate.

##### Related terms

* fader in lawe
* faderhode
* faderles
* faderly
* fadren
* forfader
* forme fader
* fornfader
* godfader
* lorfadyr
* olde fader
* stepfader

##### Descendants

* English: father
** → Marshallese: bata
** Gullah: farruh
* Scots: faither, fader, faether, faider, father, fither
* Yola: vather

##### References

* “fā̆der, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-18.
* p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

fader
* Alternative form of fadren

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

### Noun

fader m (definite singular faderen, indefinite plural fedre, definite plural fedrene)
* father (often in a religious context)

#### Synonyms

* far

### References

* “fader” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²faːer/, [²fɐ̞ː.ər], [²fɐ̞ː.er]
* IPA: /²faːder/, [²fɐ̞ː.dər], [²fɐ̞ː.der] (literary pronunciation)
* Rhymes: -aːer, -aːder
* Hyphenation: fa‧der

### Noun

fader m (definite singular faderen, indefinite plural fedrar, definite plural fedrane)
* (archaic, poetic) father

#### Synonyms

* far
* pappa

### References

* “fader” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Old Germanic cognates: Old Frisian feder, Old Saxon fadar, Old Dutch fader, Old High German fater, Old Norse faðir, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌳𐌰𐍂 (fadar).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɑ.der/

### Noun

fader m (nominative plural faderas) (Northumbrian)
* Alternative form of fæder

#### Declension
## Old Frisian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfader/

### Noun

fader m
* Alternative form of feder

#### References

* Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 195

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Vater. Doublet of fater.

### Pronunciation

* (Greater Poland):
** (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA: /ˈfa.dɛr/

### Noun

fader m pers (female equivalent mutra)
* (Chełmno-Dobrzyń, derogatory, ethnic slur) German person; Kraut
    Hypernym: Niemiec

### Further reading

* Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “fader”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 301

## Scots
### Noun

fader (plural faders)
* Alternative form of faither

### References

* “fader, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
* “fader, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish faþir, from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²fɑːdɛr/, [ˈfɑːdɛ̠r]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fader c
* (formal) father
* father, a term of address for a Christian priest
* father, creator
    Darwin - evolutionens fader.Darwin - the father of evolution.

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | fader | faders |
| singular | definite | fadern | faderns |
| plural | indefinite | fäder | fäders |
| plural | definite | fäderna | fädernas |

#### Synonyms

* far
* pappa

#### Derived terms

* anfader
* faderlig
* faderlös
* fadermord
* fadermördare
* fadersarv
* fadersbild
* fadersbunden
* fadersfigur
* fadersgestalt
* fadershand
* fadershem
* fadershjärta
* fadershus
* faderskap
* faderskomplex
* faderskänsla
* faderskärlek
* fadersnamn
* fadersroll
* fadersstolthet
* fadervår
* far
* farfader
* fäderne
* morfader
* styvfader

#### See also

* moder
* mor
* mamma
* broder
* bror
* syster

### References

* fader in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

### Anagrams

* deraf, freda