(P. a.) : păter, tris (old
* Gen PATRVS. Inscr Corp. Lat. 1469; dat PATRE, ib 182), m. Sanscr. root pā, to nourish, protect; Lat. pasco; hence, Zend, patar, protector; Gr. πατηρ; Sanscr pitri; Engl. father; Germ. Vater, a father, sire.
* Lit.Aes. Ehem, pater mi, tu hic eras? De Tuus hercle vero et animo et patura pater, Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 3: patre certo nasci,Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 46: Servius Tullius captivā Corniculanā natus, patre nullo, matre servā,i. e. by an unknown father,Liv. 4, 3: SI PATER FILIVM TER VENVM DVIT FILIVS A PATRE LIBER ESTO, Lex XII. Tab.: CORNELIVS SCIPIO BARBATVS GNAIVOD PATRE PROGNATVS, Epit. of the Scipios: ego a patre ita eram deductus,by my father,Cic. Lael. 1, 1: aliquem patris loco colere debere,id. Phil. 2, 38, 99.
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* The father as head and rep resentative of the household, esp., paterfamilias and paterfamiliae: pauci milites patresque familiae recepti,Caes. B. C. 2, 44: quemeunque patrem familiae arripuissetis,Cic. de Or. 1, 43; v. familia.
* Pater cenae, the host, Hor. S. 2, 8, 7: misericordiarum,Vulg. 2 Cor. 1, 3. —Hence, by way of opposition, *
* Pater esuritionum, the father of hunger-pains, said of a very poor man who suffers from hunger, Cat. 21, 1.
* Of animals, sire: virque paterque gregis,Ov. A. A. 1, 522; Petr. 133 fin.; Col. 6, 37, 4.
* In eccl. Lat., the Supreme Being, God: sicut enim Pater habet vitam in semet ipso,Vulg. Joan. 5, 26: confiteor tibi, Pater Domine caeli et terrae,id. Luc. 10, 21: Pater caelestis,id. Matt. 5, 48; 18, 35: Pater vester qui in caelis est,id. ib. 23, 9: Pater noster, qui es in caelis,id. ib. 6, 9: adorabunt Patrem,id. Joan. 4, 23; id. Act. 1, 7 saep.—*

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