padre

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, 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

Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. father

   Synonym: pá

Pronunciation

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

Noun

padre

1. priest

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.

Etymology

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: 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

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

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

Noun

padre m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פאדרי)

1. father

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, Códice de los músicos, 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.

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:

     Vinierõ los ermanos de ioſeph Que murio ſo padre. q̃çab mẽbrara ſo padre q̃l fẏziemos. e tornarnos a todel mal q̃l 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.”

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”). Doublet of pai.

Pronunciation

• 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

See also

• pastor
• reverendo
• madre

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/ [ˈpa.ð̞ɾe]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -adɾe
• Syllabification: pa‧dre

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. (family) father

   Synonyms: papá, progenitor

2. (Christianity) father

   Synonyms: cura, párroco, sacerdote

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• pared, preda

Alternative forms

• padri, padiri

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese padre.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

padre class V (plural mapadre class VI)

1. clergyman, priest (especially a Christian one)

   Synonym: (only a Christian priest) kasisi

2. (chess) bishop

See also

Chess pieces in Swahili · kete za sataranji (see also: sataranji, chesi) (layout · text)
shaha, shehe, mfalme, kete kuu	malkia	ngome	sataranja, padre	farasi, jemadari	kitunda

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/ [ˈpaː.d̪ɾɛ]
• Rhymes: -adɾe
• Syllabification: pa‧dre

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Further reading

• “padre”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• pader