PATER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: pater   

 I. (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))

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