pater
French\pa.tɛʁ\
pater is a French noun. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prière du Notre Père”; the English Wiktionary has no entry for it yet.
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Prière du Notre Père. 2. Gros grain d’un chapelet sur lequel on dit le pater.
noun: 1. Père.
verb: 1. Mettre pat.
verb: 1. Coller des cuirs ensemble avec une espèce de colle qu’on appelle pâte. 2. Se dit de fruits dont la chair est devenue comme de la pâte.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pater
- avoir paté infinitive past
- en patant gerund present
- en ayant paté gerund past
- patant participle present
- paté participle past
- je pate indicative present
- tu pates indicative present
- il/elle/on pate indicative present
- nous patons indicative present
- vous patez indicative present
- ils/elles patent indicative present
- j’ai paté indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as paté indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a paté indicative past multiword-construction
- nous avons paté indicative past multiword-construction
- vous avez paté indicative past multiword-construction
- ils/elles ont paté indicative past multiword-construction
- je patais indicative imperfect
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pater?
- \pa.tɛʁ\
- \pa.te\
- \pɑ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pater in French?
pater appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).