padre

See also: Padre

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑdɹeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

padre (plural padres or padri)

1. A military clergyman.
2. (Christianity) 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

• pared, repad, raped, reap'd, dreap, Preda, Pedra, drape, Praed

Asturian

Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:

padre

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Etymology

Inherited from Latin pater, patrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/ [ˈpa.ð̞ɾe]
• Rhymes: -adɾe
• Syllabification: pa‧dre

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. father

   Synonym: pá

Chavacano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/, [ˈpa.d̪ɾe]
• Hyphenation: pa‧dre

Noun

padre

1. priest

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• padreh

Etymology

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

Noun

pādre

1. (Christianity) priest

References

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

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/ [ˈpa.ð̞ɾɪ]
• Rhymes: -adɾe
• Hyphenation: pa‧dre

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. father

   Synonym: pai

2. 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

padre

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

Derived 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)

1. (family) father

   Synonyms: papà, (regional) babbo

2. (Christianity) father

   Synonyms: prete, curato, parroco, sacerdote

Derived terms

• vicepadre
• Santopadre

Descendants

• → English: padre

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

Anagrams

• perda, preda