Vater
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Vater (plural Vaters)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Vater is the 37076th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 602 individuals. Vater is most common among White (95.85%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Vater”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Vatter (obsolete, except informally, representing the regional pronunciation)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vater, from Old High German fater, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Germanic cognates include Dutch vader, Low German Vader, English father, Danish fader, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌳𐌰𐍂 (fadar).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfaːtər/, /ˈfaːtɐ/, [ˈfɑːtʰɐ]
- IPA(key): [ˈfatʰɐ] (Rheinish, Westphalian)
- IPA(key): [ˈfɑːtər] (Swiss, Austro-Bavarian)
Audio (Austria): (file) Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]Vater m (strong, genitive Vaters, plural Väter, diminutive Väterchen n)
- father
- Coordinate terms: (by birth order) Sohn m; (by sex) Mutter f
- Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unsere neun Planeten.
- My father explains to me our nine planets every Sunday.
Declension
[edit]Declension of Vater [masculine, strong]
Derived terms
[edit]- Ältervater
- Beichtvater
- Doktorvater
- Familienvater
- Gottvater
- Großvater
- Gründervater
- Kirchenvater
- Landesvater
- Pflegevater
- Rabenvater
- Stammvater
- Stiefvater
- Übervater
- Urvater
- Vater-Mutter-Kind
- Vaterbruder
- Vaterfigur
- Vaterhaus
- Vaterland
- väterlich
- vaterlos
- Vatermörder
- Vaterschaft
- Vaterschwester
- Vatersmutter
- Vatersname
- Vatersschwester
- Vaterstadt
- Vatertag
- Vaterunser
- wie der Vater, so der Sohn
- Ziehvater
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Vater” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Vater” in Duden online
- “Vater” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Vater”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Vater on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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