padre

See also: Padre

English

Etymology

From Italian padre, Spanish padre, Portuguese padre (“priest”), from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, pater, and père.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɑdɹeɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

padre (plural padres or padri)

A military clergyman.
A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
- 1979, James Wakefield Burke, A Forgotten Glory: the Missions of Old Texas‎, Waco, TX: Texian Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 62:
  The Zuma and Manzo Indians of the area were in the habit of going to the missions in the Spanish provinces below the Rio Grande River to solicit the padres to come to teach and baptize them in their villages.

Anagrams

drape, dreap, pared, raped, repad

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/,
Rhymes: -adɾe
Hyphenation: pa‧dre

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

father
Synonym: pá

Chavacano

Noun

padre

priest

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

padreh

Etymology

From Spanish padre (“father, priest”), from Latin pater.

Noun

pādre

a Christian priest

References

Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, page 229.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese padre, from Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/
Rhymes: -adɾe
Hyphenation: pa‧dre

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

father
Synonym: pai
priest (Catholic or Orthodox)

References

“padre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“padre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“padre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“padre” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“padre” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From Old Italian patre, from Latin patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpa.dre/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -adre
Hyphenation: pà‧dre

Noun

padre m (plural padri, pejorative (usually jocular) padraccio)

father

Synonyms

papà
(regional) babbo

Derived terms

Descendants

→ English: padre

Anagrams

perda, preda

Ladino

Noun

padre m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פאדרי)

father

Coordinate terms

madre (מאדרי)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpa.d̪ɾe/

Noun

padre m (plural padres, feminine madre, feminine plural madres)

father
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 4 (facsimile):
  
  Eſta e como Santa maria guardou ao fillo do judeu que non ardeſſe que ſeu padre deitara no forno.
  This one is (about) how Holy Mary protected from being burnt the son of the Jew whose father had lain him in the furnace.

Descendants

Galician: padre
Portuguese: padre (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin patrem, singular accusative of pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

father
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 11v:
  Vinierõ los ermanos de ioſeph Que murio ſo padre. q̃çab mẽbrara ſo padre q̃l fẏziemos. e tornarnos a todel mal q̃l fẏziemos.
  Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, , “Perhaps he will remember his father what we did to him, and he will repay us all the wrong we did to him.”