père
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pere"
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French père (“father”), from Latin pater. Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and pater.
Pronunciation
Noun
père (plural pères)
- A priest of the Roman Catholic Church, especially a French one. Also used as a title preceding the name of such a priest.
- Sr. - Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the father is being referred to rather than the son (junior, fils).
Usage notes
- Current usage of differentiating fathers and sons is borrowed from French; hence this term follows the name as it does in French grammar.
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French pere, from Old French pedre, pedra, pere, from Latin patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛʁ/
audio (France) (file) - (Quebec) IPA(key): /paɛ̯ʁ/
audio (Quebec) (file) - (mostly obsolete) IPA(key): /peɾ(ə)/
- (Louisiana) IPA(key): /pæɾ/
- Rhymes: -ɛʁ
- Homophones: pères, pair, pairs, paire, paires, perd, perds
Noun
père m (plural pères)
- father (parent)
- Coordinate term: (mother) mère
- father (clergyman)
- Sr. (senior) (postnominal title used to indicate a father that shares the same name as the son)
- Antonym: (Jr.) fils
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “père”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Norman
Etymology 1
From Old French pedre, pere, from Latin pater, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Noun
père m (plural pères)
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Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- (gender): mère
Etymology 2
From Old French peire, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as feminine singular.
Noun
père f (plural pères)