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Is pater a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word pater is a Scrabble US word. The word pater is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is pater a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word pater is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (8 found)

APERT,APTER,PATER,PEART,PETAR,PRATE,TAPER,TRAPE,

4-letter words (19 found)

APER,ARET,PARE,PART,PATE,PEAR,PEAT,PERT,PRAT,RAPE,RAPT,RATE,REAP,TAPE,TARE,TARP,TEAR,TEPA,TRAP,

3-letter words (23 found)

APE,APT,ARE,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ERA,ETA,PAR,PAT,PEA,PER,PET,PRE,RAP,RAT,REP,RET,TAE,TAP,TAR,TEA,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AR,AT,EA,ER,ET,PA,PE,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 62 words from pater according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of pater

pater apter ptaer tpaer atper taper paetr apetr peatr epatr aeptr eaptr ptear tpear petar eptar tepar etpar atepr taepr aetpr eatpr teapr etapr patre aptre ptare tpare atpre tapre parte aprte prate rpate arpte rapte ptrae tprae prtae rptae trpae rtpae atrpe tarpe artpe ratpe trape rtape paert apert peart epart aeprt eaprt paret apret praet rpaet arpet rapet perat eprat preat rpeat erpat repat aerpt earpt arept raept erapt reapt ptera tpera petra eptra tepra etpra ptrea tprea prtea rptea trpea rtpea perta eprta preta rpeta erpta repta terpa etrpa trepa rtepa ertpa retpa aterp taerp aetrp eatrp tearp etarp atrep tarep artep ratep traep rtaep aertp eartp aretp raetp eratp reatp terap etrap treap rteap ertap retap

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Definitions and meaning of pater

pater

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and père.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪtɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪtə/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

pater (plural paters)

  1. (formal or humorous) Father.
    Coordinate term: mater

Related terms

Descendants

  • Tok Pisin: pater

See also

  • mater
  • padre
  • patrician

Anagrams

  • Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpatɛr]

Noun

pater

  1. genitive plural of patro

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Doublet of vader and va.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaː.tər/
  • Hyphenation: pa‧ter
  • Rhymes: -aːtər

Noun

pater m (plural paters, diminutive patertje n)

  1. (Roman Catholicism) father (as a religious title)

Derived terms

  • bloedpater

Related terms

  • paternoster
  • Paternoster

Descendants

  • → Saramaccan: páiti

Anagrams

  • prate

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpa.tər]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧têr

Noun

patêr (first-person possessive paterku, second-person possessive patermu, third-person possessive paternya)

  1. (Catholicism) priest.
    Synonyms: pastor, rama

Further reading

  • “pater” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Alternative forms

  • P, P.

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. As a titular suffix, shares cognate roots with Old Latin Diēspiter (“Father Jove”), Latin Iuppiter (“Jupiter”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpät̪ɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ter/, [ˈpäːt̪er]

Noun

pater m (genitive patris); third declension

  1. father (male parent)
  2. head of household
  3. parent
  4. forefather
  5. priest
  6. honorific title

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Neapolitan: pate
    • Old Italian: patre
      • Italian: padre
        • → English: padre
    • Sicilian: patri
  • Western Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: pèder, pär
      • Ligurian: paire, poæ
      • Lombard: pader, pare
      • Piedmontese: pare, peri
      • Venetian: pare
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Franco-Provençal: pâre
      • Old French: pere, pedre
        • Bourguignon: peire
        • Middle French: pere
          • French: père
            • → Dutch: pere
            • → English: père
          • Norman: père, pére, péthe
        • Walloon: pere
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Old Leonese:
        • Asturian: pá, pai, padre
        • Extremaduran: pairi
        • Leonese: pai
        • Mirandese: pai
        • Navarro-Aragonese:
          • Aragonese: pai
      • Old Galician-Portuguese: padre
        • Galician: padre
        • Portuguese: padre (see there for further descendants)
      • ⇒ Old Galician-Portuguese: pay
        • Galician: pai
        • Portuguese: pai (see there for further descendants)
      • Old Spanish: padre
        • Ladino:
          Hebrew script: פאדרי
          Latin script: padre
        • Spanish: padre
          • → Classical Nahuatl: padre
          • → English: padre
          • → Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa̱lej
          • → Tagalog: pari
    • Occitano-Romance:
      • Old Occitan: paire
        • Occitan: paire
        • Catalan: pare
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
      • Friulian: pari
      • Romansch: pader
  • → Dutch: pater
  • → English: pater
    • Tok Pisin: pater
  • → Romanian: pater
  • → Welsh: pader

See also

  • atta
  • genitor
  • māter
  • parēns

References

  • “pater”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pater”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pater in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pater.

Noun

pater m

  1. father (term of address for a Christian priest)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English pater (Christian priests are often referred to as 'Father'), from Latin pater.

Noun

pater

  1. priest

Source: wiktionary.org