padre

From Italian padre, Spanish padre, Portuguese padre (“priest”), 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. 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

From Latin pater, patrem.

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

padre m (plural padres)

1. father

   Synonym: pá

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

padre

1. priest

• padreh

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

pādre

1. a Christian priest

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

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)

• 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 (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

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. father

• papà
• (regional) babbo

• 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

padre m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פאדרי)

1. father

• madre (מאדרי)

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
   • 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.

• 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)

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.”

• madre

• Ladino: padre
• Spanish: padre
  • → Chinese: 巴禮／巴礼
  • → Classical Nahuatl: padre
  • → English: padre
  • → Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa̱lej
  • → Tagalog: pari

• Pe. (abbreviation)

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

• 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)
• → English: padre
• → Gujarati: પાદરી (pādrī)
• → Hindi: पादरी (pādrī)
• → 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 Latin patrem, pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpadɾe/ [ˈpa.ð̞ɾe]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -adɾe
• Syllabification: pa‧dre

padre m (plural padres)

1. (family) father

   Synonyms: papá, progenitor

2. (Christianity) father

   Synonyms: cura, párroco, sacerdote

• abuelo
• bisabuelo

• hijo
• nieto

• madre f

• → Chinese: 巴禮／巴礼
• → Classical Nahuatl: padre
• → English: padre
• → Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa̱lej
• → Tagalog: pari

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

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:guay

• esposo
• marido
• parentesco
• poca madre

• “padre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

• pared, preda

• padri, padiri

Borrowed from Portuguese padre.

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padre (ma class, plural mapadre)

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