pater

At first glance, an English word like father looks pretty different from the Latin word pater.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

At first glance, an English word like father looks pretty different from the Latin word pater.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Yet it was only when the Senate also suggested that Livia henceforth be known as mater patriae Mother of Our Country—a play on the title pater patriae granted a decade previously to Augustus—and, more provocatively, that Tiberius’s official title should be qualified by the description “son of Julia” or “son of Livia” that the new emperor was moved to use his imperial veto.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

To use an Indo-European family example, we know that English father, foot, fish and Latin pater, ped -, pisc - are cognates because they show regular sound correspondences throughout.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

From? pater,? we also get the Latin word for? fatherland,? so that now we know what a? patriot? is.

Alliance Oltion, Jerry 1990

The word pater, for example, signifies not only a father, but your father, my father, his or her father, all included in a word.

Dedication Vergil 1909

Ruæus thinks that the word pater is to be referr’d to Evander, the father of Pallas.

Dedication Vergil 1909

The word pater, for instance, pronounced alike in both languages, differs in signification; being used in the one to imply father, in the other fire.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

The word pater, in the common acceptation, might be applicable to Saturn; for he was supposed to have been the father of all the Gods, and was therefore so entitled by the antient poet

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

Very consistently, the PIE *p that shows up unchanged in Latin pater shifted in Germanic to the f we now have in English father.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010