padre
English
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 (UK) (file)
Noun
padre (plural padres or padri)
- A military clergyman.
- A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
- 1979, Burke, James Wakefield, 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.
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Chavacano
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
- padreh
References
- Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, page 229.
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese padre, from Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpaðɾɪ]
References
- “padre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “padre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “padre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “padre” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “padre” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Etymology
From Old Italian patre, from Latin patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpa.dre/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -adre
- Hyphenation: pà‧dre
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: padre
See also
Further reading
Old Galician-Portuguese
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)
- father
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, 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.
- Eſta e como Santa maria guardou ao fillo do judeu que non ardeſſe que ſeu padre deitara no forno.
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Old Spanish
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)
- father
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 11v.
- Vinieró los ermanos de ioſeph Que murio ſo padre. q́çab mébrara ſo padre q́l fẏziemos. e tornarnos a todel mal q́l 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.”
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 11v.
Coordinate terms
Portuguese

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”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpa.dɾi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpa.dɾe/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpa.dɾ(ɨ)/ [ˈpa.ðɾ(ɨ)]
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -adɾi, (Portugal) -adɾɨ
- Hyphenation: pa‧dre
Noun
padre m (plural padres)
- ecclesiastical priest (Christian clergyman who performs masses)
- (archaic) father (male parent)
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin patrem, pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpadɾe/ [ˈpa.ð̞ɾe]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -adɾe
- Syllabification: pa‧dre
Coordinate terms
- madre f
Derived terms
Adjective
padre (plural padres, superlative padrísimo)
- (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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese padre.
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun
padre (ma class, plural mapadre)
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pa‧dre
- IPA(key): /ˈpadɾe/, [ˈpa.dɾɛ]
Noun
padre (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)
Noun
padre (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)
- Clipping of kompadre.
Further reading
- “padre”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018