padre

Borrowed from Italian padre, Spanish padre, or Portuguese padre (“priest”), which are from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, pater, and père.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑdɹeɪ/

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padre (plural padres or padri)

1. A military clergyman.
2. (Christianity) 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.

• pared, repad, raped, reap'd, dreap, Preda, Pedra, drape, Praed

Inherited from Latin pater, patrem.

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

padre m (plural padres)

1. father

   Synonym: pá

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

padre

1. priest

• padreh

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

pādre

1. (Christianity) priest

• Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, page 229.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese padre, from Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

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

padre m (plural padres)

1. father

   Synonym: pai

2. priest (Catholic or Orthodox)

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “padre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “padre”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

Derived from Old Italian patre, from Latin patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.dre/

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• Rhymes: -adre
• Hyphenation: pà‧dre

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

1. (family) father

   Synonyms: papà, (regional) babbo

2. (Christianity) father

   Synonyms: prete, curato, parroco, sacerdote

• vicepadre
• Santopadre

• → English: padre

• (family members) famiglia; cugino, figlio, figlia, fratello, madre, marito, moglie, nipote, nonna, nonno, padre, sorella, zia, zio ^{(Category: it:Family)}
• genitore
• madre

• padre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• padre in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

• perda, preda

Inherited from Old Spanish padre (“father”), from Latin patrem, pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

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padre m (Hebrew spelling פאדרי, feminine madre)^[1]

1. (family) father
   • 2000, La Lettre Sépharade‎^[2], numbers 1–19, La Lettre Sépharade, page 9:

     Mi padre tambyen favlava el ladino ma konoseva de mas el turko, el franses i el grego, ke favlava sin el mizmo aksento ke teniyamos, los otros, i pareseva grego halis.

     My father also spoke Judezmo but he knew more Turkish, French and Greek; he spoke without the same accent that we ourselves had, and he seemed like [an] authentic Greek.

   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[3], page 47:

     Mi padre sigió el konsejo del kadí i en un punto saltó sovre el kavayo, le dio una kon el zingí, i el kavayo se empesó a bolar.

     My father followed the Qadi’s advice and at one point he left by horse; [somebody] gave him one with the stirrup, and the horse started to flee.

Inherited from Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.d̪ɾe/

padre m (plural padres, feminine madre, feminine plural madres)

1. father
   • a. 1284, 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.

• Galician: padre
• Portuguese: padre (see there for further descendants)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/

padre m (plural padres, feminine singular madre, feminine plural madres)

1. father

   Synonym: echa

   • 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.

     [Vinieron los ermanos de Joseph que murió so padre. “Quiçab membrará so padre que-l fiziemos e tornar-nos-á tod el mal que-l fiziemos.”]

     [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.”

• Ladino: padre, פאדרי
• Spanish: padre
  • → Classical Nahuatl: padre
  • → English: padre
  • → Hokkien: 巴禮 / 巴礼 (pa-lé)
  • → Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa̱lej
  • → Tagalog: pari

• Pe. (abbreviation)

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

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

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

• → Bengali: পাদ্রি (padri) (see there for further descendants)
• → English: padre
• → Gujarati: પાદરી (pādrī)
• → Hindi: पादरी (pādrī) (see there for further descendants)
• → Japanese: 破天連 (bateren)
• → Konkani: पाद्रि (pādri)
• → Malay: paderi
  • Indonesian: padri
• → Malayalam: പാതിരി (pātiri)
• → Persian: پادری (pādrī) — Indo-Persian
• → Sinhalese: පාදිලියා (pādiliyā)
• → Swahili: padre, padri, padiri
• ⇒ Tamil: பாதிரியார் (pātiriyār)
• → Thai: บาทหลวง (bàat-lǔuang)

• pastor
• reverendo
• madre

Inherited from Old Spanish padre (“father”), from Latin patrem, pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/ [ˈpa.ð̞ɾe]

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• Rhymes: -adɾe
• Syllabification: pa‧dre

padre m (plural padres, feminine madre, feminine plural madres)

1. (family) father

   Synonyms: papá, progenitor

   Hyponyms: abuelo, bisabuelo

   Meronyms: hijo, nieto

2. (Christianity) father

   Synonyms: cura, párroco, sacerdote

• → Classical Nahuatl: padre
• → English: padre
• → Hokkien: 巴禮 / 巴礼 (pa-lé)
• → Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa̱lej
• → Tagalog: pari

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

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

   Synonyms: chido, guay, chévere

• esposo
• marido
• parentesco
• poca madre

• “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], 10 December 2024
• “padre”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• “padre”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019

• pared, preda

• padri, padiri

Borrowed from Portuguese padre.

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padre class V (plural mapadre class VI)

1. clergyman, priest (especially a Christian one)

   Synonym: (only a Christian priest) kasisi

2. (chess) bishop

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

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

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

padre (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)

1. father

   Synonyms: ama, tatay

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

padre (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)

1. clipping of kompadre

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

• pader