# pater
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and père.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈpeɪtɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /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

#### 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: [ˈpatɛr]

### Noun

pater
* 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: /ˈpaː.tər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pa‧ter
* Rhymes: -aːtər

### Noun

pater m (plural paters, diminutive patertje n)
* (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: [ˈpa.tər]
* Hyphenation: pa‧têr

### Noun

patêr (plural pater-pater)
* (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

Picture dictionary :
Network Diagram for Roman Extended Families
atavia
atavus
abavia
abavus
proavia
proavus
avia
/ ava māterna
avus māternus
avia
/ ava paterna
avus paternus
cōnsobrīna
/ mātruēlis
cōnsobrīnus
/ mātruēlis
patruēlis
patruēlis
mātertera
avunculus
amita
patruus
/ barbās
māter
pater
sobrīna
/neptis
/neptia
sobrīnus
/ nepōs
frātruēlis
/neptis
/neptia
nepōs
/frātruus
/frātruēlis
sorōrius
/marītus sorōris
soror
frāter
frātria
/ uxor frātris
socrus
socer
/patraster
socrus
socer
/patraster
soror uxōris
frāter uxōris
glōs
lēvir
uxor
/marīta
/coniunx
/nūpta
marītus
/coniunx
gener
/ fīliaster
fīlia
/ nāta
fīlius
/ nātus
nurus
/ fīliastra
prōgener
neptis
/neptia
nepōs
prōnurus
proneptis
pronepōs
abneptis
abnepōs :

### Alternative forms

* P, P.

### Etymology

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: /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpät̪ɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpäːt̪er]

### Noun

pater m (genitive patris); third declension
* father (male parent)
* head of household
* parent
* forefather
* priest
* honorific title

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

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

#### 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
*** Venetan: 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
**** Old 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
***** → Chinese: 巴禮 / 巴礼
***** → 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, 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

Borrowed from Latin pater.

### 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
* priest