fader

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪdə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)

From fade (verb) +‎ -er.

fader (plural faders)

1. A device used to raise and lower sound volume.
2. (computer graphics) A program or algorithm for fading out colors.

From fade (adjective) +‎ -er.

fader

1. comparative form of fade: more fade

• Defra, Freda, fared, fear'd, feard

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

fader c (singular definite faderen, plural indefinite fædre)

1. (now formal) father
2. A term of address for a Christian priest.

• far

• fædreland (home country)

• moder
• mor
• broder
• bror
• søster

Borrowed from Occitan fadar.

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fader

1. (reflexive, informal) to get stuck with

• “fader”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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fader

1. comparative degree of fade

fader

1. inflection of fade:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

fader

1. feminine dative of fad

Inherited from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

• fæder, faderr, fadir, fadyr, fadur, feder, vader, veder, faðer, father, ffader

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa(ː)dər/, /ˈfaðər/, /ˈfɛ(ː)dər/

fader (plural faders or fadres, genitive fader or faders or fadres)

1. A father (male direct ancestor of someone or some creature)
2. An indirect male ancestor (of some being)
3. The inventor or originator of an idea, nation or lineage.
4. A spiritual superordinate, teacher, or leader:
   1. A confessor (individual who one offers confessions to);
   2. One of the Church Fathers; an author of patristic writings.
5. God/Jesus as father (of Jesus, as inventor, or as leader).
6. An appellation signifying the speaker's inferiority.
7. (rare) A secular superordinate or leader.
8. (rare) A member of the Roman senate.

• English: father
  • → Marshallese: bata
  • Gullah: farruh
• Scots: faither, fader, faether, faider, father, fither
• Yola: vather

• “fā̆der, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 February 2019.
• p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.

fader

1. alternative form of fadren

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

fader m (definite singular faderen, indefinite plural fedre, definite plural fedrene)

1. father (often in a religious context)

• far

• “fader” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

• IPA^(key): /²faːer/, [²fɐ̞ː.ər], [²fɐ̞ː.er]
• IPA^(key): /²faːder/, [²fɐ̞ː.dər], [²fɐ̞ː.der] (literary pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -aːer, -aːder
• Hyphenation: fa‧der

fader m (definite singular faderen, indefinite plural fedrar, definite plural fedrane)

1. (archaic, poetic) father

• far
• pappa

• “fader” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Old Germanic cognates: Old Frisian feder, Old Saxon fadar, Old Dutch fader, Old High German fater, Old Norse faðir, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌳𐌰𐍂 (fadar).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑ.der/

fader m (nominative plural faderas) (Northumbrian)

1. alternative form of fæder

• IPA^(key): /ˈfader/

fader m

1. alternative form of feder

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 195

Borrowed from German Vater. Doublet of fater.

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.dɛr/

fader m pers (female equivalent mutra)

1. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń, derogatory, ethnic slur) German person; Kraut

   Hypernym: Niemiec

• Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “fader”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 301

fader (plural faders)

1. alternative form of faither

• “fader, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “fader, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

From Old Swedish faþir, from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

• IPA^(key): /²fɑːdɛr/, [ˈfɑːdɛ̠r]

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fader c

1. (formal) father
2. father, a term of address for a Christian priest
3. father, creator

   Darwin - evolutionens fader.

   Darwin - the father of evolution.

• far
• farsa
• pappa
• stabbe

• moder
• mor
• mamma
• broder
• bror
• syster

• fader in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fader in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fader in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• deraf, freda