pater
English
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 (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, 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
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: 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
- IPA(key): /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
Descendants
- → Saramaccan: páiti
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpa.tər]
- Hyphenation: pa‧têr
Noun
patêr (first-person possessive paterku, second-person possessive patermu, third-person possessive paternya)
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
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) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpät̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /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.
| Case | 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
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
Romanian
Tok Pisin
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