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)

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Noun

padre (plural padres or padri)

1. A military clergyman.
2. A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
   • 1979, James Wakefield Burke, A Forgotten Glory: the Missions of Old Texas‎^[1], 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.

Noun

padre (plural padres)

1. father

Synonyms

• pá

Chavacano

Noun

padre

1. priest

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• padreh

Etymology

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

Noun

pādre

1. 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): [ˈpaðɾɪ]

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. father

   Synonym: pai

2. 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

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• Rhymes: -adre
• Hyphenation: pà‧dre

Noun

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

1. father

Synonyms

• papà
• (regional) babbo

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

Ladino

Noun

padre m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פאדרי‎)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. father
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 11v.

     Vinieró los ermanos de ioſeph Que murio ſo padre. q́çab mébrara ſo padre q́l fẏziemos. e tornarnos a todel mal q́l fẏziemos.

     [When] Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, [they said], “Perhaps he will remember his father [and] what we did to him, and he will repay us all the wrong we did to him.”

Coordinate terms

• madre

Descendants

• Ladino: padre
• Spanish: padre
  • → Classical Nahuatl: padre
  • → English: padre
  • → Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa̱lej
  • → Tagalog: pari

Portuguese

padres

Alternative forms

• Pe. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese padre (“father”), from Latin patrem (“father”), from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.dɾi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.dɾi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.dɾe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.dɾɨ/ [ˈpa.ðɾɨ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -adɾi, (Portugal) -adɾɨ
• Hyphenation: pa‧dre

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

2. ecclesiastical priest (Christian clergyman who performs masses)
3. father (term of address for a priest)
5. (archaic) father (male parent)

   Synonyms: pai, papai

Descendants

• → English: padre
• → Hindi: पादरी (pādrī)
• → Japanese: 破天連 (bateren)
• → Konkani: पाद्रि (pādri)
• → Malay: paderi
  • Indonesian: padri
• → Malayalam: പാതിരി (pātiri)
• → Sinhalese: පාදිලියා (pādiliyā)
• → Swahili: padre, padri, padiri
• → Thai: บาทหลวง (bàat-lǔuang)

See also

• pastor
• reverendo
• madre

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/ [ˈpa.ð̞ɾe]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -adɾe
• Syllabification: pa‧dre

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. (family) father

   Synonyms: papá, progenitor

2. (Christianity) father

   Synonyms: cura, párroco, sacerdote

Hypernyms

• abuelo
• bisabuelo

Hyponyms

• hijo
• nieto

Coordinate terms

• madre f

Derived terms

• compadre
• cuando seas padre comerás huevos
• de padre y muy señor mío
• Día del Padre
• la vida padre
• más feo que pegar a un padre
• nuestros primeros padres
• nunca digas de este agua no beberé, ni este cura no es mi padre
• padre adoptivo
• padre biológico
• padre de almas
• padre de familia
• padre de mancebía
• padre de pila
• padre de pobres
• padre de provincia
• padre del yermo
• padre nuestro
• Santo Padre

 

Descendants

• → Classical Nahuatl: padre
• → English: padre
• → Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa̱lej
• → Tagalog: pari

Adjective

padre m or f (masculine and feminine plural padres, superlative padrísimo)

1. (Mexico, slang) cool, acceptable, easy

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:guay

See also

• esposo
• marido
• parentesco
• poca madre

Further reading

• “padre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• pared, preda

Swahili

Alternative forms

• padri, padiri

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese padre.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Noun

padre (ma class, plural mapadre)

1. clergyman, priest (especially a Christian one)

   Synonym: (only a Christian priest) kasisi

2. (chess) bishop

Tagalog

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish padre, from Latin pater. Doublet of pari.

Noun

padre (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)

1. father

   Synonyms: ama, tatay

2. (religion) a term of respectful address for a priest

Related terms

• kompadre
• padrastro
• Padre
• padrino
• padron
• patron

 

Etymology 2

Noun

padre (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)

1. Clipping of kompadre.

Further reading

• “padre”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018