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English
Etymology
From Italian padre , Spanish padre , Portuguese padre ( “ priest ” ) , from Latin pater ( “ father ” ) . Doublet of ayr , faeder , father , pater , and père .
Pronunciation
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.
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Asturian
Etymology
From Latin pater , patrem .
Pronunciation
Noun
padre m (plural padres )
father
Synonym: pá
Chavacano
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈpadɾe/ ,
Hyphenation: pa‧dre
Noun
padre
priest
Classical Nahuatl
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
Noun
padre m (plural padres )
father
Synonym: pai
priest ( Catholic or Orthodox )
References
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006 –2022 ) “padre ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006 –2018 ) “padre ”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “padre ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language ] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “padre ”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “padre ”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega , →ISSN
Italian
Etymology
From Old Italian patre , from Latin patrem , from Proto-Italic *patēr , from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr .
Pronunciation
Noun
padre m (plural padri , pejorative ( usually jocular ) padraccio )
father
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
(family members ) famiglia ; cugino , figlio , figlia , fratello , madre , marito , moglie , nipote , nonna , nonno , padre , sorella , zia , zio (Category: it:Family )
genitore
madre
Further reading
padre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti , Olivetti Media Communication
padre in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
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Ladino
Noun
padre m (Latin spelling , Hebrew spelling פאדרי )
father
Coordinate terms
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin patrem , accusative singular of pater ( “ father ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr .
Pronunciation
Noun
padre m (plural padres , feminine madre , feminine plural madres )
father
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
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.”
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Descendants
Portuguese
padres
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese padre ( “ father ” ) , from Latin patrem ( “ father ” ) , from Proto-Italic *patēr , from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr ( “ father ” ) . Doublet of pai .
Pronunciation
Rhymes: ( Brazil ) -adɾi , ( Portugal ) -adɾɨ
Hyphenation: pa‧dre
Noun
padre m (plural padres )
ecclesiastical priest ( Christian clergyman who performs masses )
father ( term of address for a priest )
( archaic ) father ( male parent )
Synonyms: pai , papai
Descendants
See also
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin patrem, pater , from Proto-Italic *patēr , from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈpadɾe/
Rhymes: -adɾe
Syllabification: pa‧dre
Noun
padre m (plural padres )
( family ) father
Synonyms: papá , progenitor
( Christianity ) father
Synonyms: cura , párroco , sacerdote
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
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Derived terms
Descendants
Adjective
padre m or f (masculine and feminine plural padres , superlative padrísimo )
( Mexico , slang ) cool , acceptable , easy
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:guay
See also
Further reading
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Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese padre .
Pronunciation
Noun
padre class V (plural mapadre class VI )
clergyman , priest ( especially a Christian one )
Synonym: ( only a Christian priest ) kasisi
( chess ) bishop
See also
Tagalog
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish padre , from Latin pater . Doublet of pari .
Noun
padre (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ )
father
Synonyms: ama , tatay
( religion ) a term of respectful address for a priest
Etymology 2
Noun
padre (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ )
Clipping of kompadre .
Further reading
“padre ”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila, 2018
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