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How to pronounce pater in English?

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Type of begetter, father, male parent

Examples of pater

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Pater was one of the terms applied to the original members of the Roman Senate.
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He remembers one Sunday lunch when his father was at home, playing pater familias.
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Mr. Mac was the pater familias of the team, the franchise, the arena, the district.
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One of the fetiales, named pater patratus, was appointed as the fetiales'spokesman.
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All such festivals and offerings were presided over by the pater familias.
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Fusius as pater patratus, for the purpose of binding Rome and Alba Longa by a treaty.
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Spall is lovely as the weary pater familias, though he's working uphill most of the time.
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The word patriotism comes from pater, Greek for father, and means love for a fatherland.
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It consists of an anagram of PATER NOSTER carved on a piece of amphora.
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More examples
  • An informal use of the Latin word for father; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously
  • (patness) opportuneness: timely convenience
  • (Paters) The Lord's Prayer (also known as the Our Father or Pater Noster) is perhaps the best-known prayer in Christianity. ...
  • Father
  • Socially recognized father of a child; not necessarily the genitor.