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paternormalized · pater2 analyses · 1 lemma
Lemma 1pătĕr
nounmasculine
father; [pater familias, patris familias => head of family/household]
Morphology2 analyses
nominative singularpater · regular
vocative singularpater · regular
Lewis & Short
păter, tris, [ root pā, to nourish, protect; pasco; hence, Zend, patar, protector; ; Sanscr pitri; father; Vater]
dat PATRE, ib 182, a father, sire.
Aes. Ehem, pater mi, tu hic eras? De Tuus hercle vero et animo et patura pater.
The father as head and rep resentative of the household, , paterfamilias and paterfamiliae; familia.
In : patres, fathers, forefathers. — in sing ( ): dixitque Jacob: quod juravit ad Abra. ham patrem nostrūm.
PATRES for parentes, parents.
As a title of honor, father. — Of a deity, of Jupiter: divum pater atque hominum rex, Enn. (Ann. 179 Vahl.); pater optime Olimpi, (Ann. 198 ); Quirine pater, Enn. (Ann. 121 Vahl.): pater Tiberine, (Ann. 55 ); of the Tiber: Wagner. — Of the creative or generative powers of nature as deities: aequoreus, Ocean — As an honorable designation applied to senators. — Hence, patres = patricii, to plebeii: patratus, h. under patro, P. a. — Of the founder of a school: pater patriae, the father of his country, of Cicero — of Marius — As a term of respect.
In , the Supreme Being, God.
Pater cenae, the host. — Hence, by way of opposition.
Pater esuritionum, the father of hunger-pains, said of a very poor man who suffers from hunger.
Of animals, sire.
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