Noun: pater
| Singular | pater |
| Plural | paters |
Sample Sentences
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Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay
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He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way
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He spends the good oof that his pater has made
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Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade. [1900, Harry B. Norris, “Burlington Bertie”:]
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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. [1923, Warwick Deeping, The Secret Sanctuary, e-artnow, published 2021:]
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Strangled by the wishes of pater / Hoping for the arms of mater / Get to me the sooner or later [1985, Mick Hucknall, Neil Moss, “Holding Back the Years”, in Picture Book, performed by Simply Red:]
Nouns inflected like pater
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
4. Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
5. Proto-Italic *patēr
6. Latin paterbor.
7. English pater
8. Borrowed from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and père. See: Latin Nouns '
pater'.