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- Proto-Indo-European*peh₂-?
- Proto-Indo-European*ph₂tḗr
- Proto-Italic*patēr
- Latinpater
- English todaypater
Borrowed from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and père.
Words from the same roots
Latinpater all →
papapadrepaternosterpatristicspaterfamiliaspatroclinouspère
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.