PATER (pater)

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Irregular inflected form: pater   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pater mean? 

• PATER (noun)
  The noun PATER has 1 sense:

1. an informal use of the Latin word for father; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously

  Familiarity information: PATER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An informal use of the Latin word for father; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pater" is a kind of...):

begetter; father; male parent (a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father))

 Context examples 

Pass the word that the men kneel, and that the under-officers repeat to them the pater, the ave, and the credo.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Item, that upon brother Ambrose reproving him for this blasphemous wish, he did hold the said brother face downwards over the piscatorium or fish-pond for a space during which the said brother was able to repeat a pater and four aves for the better fortifying of his soul against impending death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)