pater familias
See also: paterfamilias
English
Noun
pater familias
- Alternative spelling of paterfamilias.
Latin
Alternative forms
- pater familiae
- paterfamilias
- paterfamiliae
Etymology
From pater (“father”) + familiās, an archaic genitive of familia (“family", "household”), literally meaning "father of the family" or "father of the household".
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpa.tɛr faˈmɪ.li.aːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpaː.t̪er faˈmiː.li.as]
Noun
pater familiās m (genitive patris familiās, feminine māter familiās); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pater familiās | patrēs familiās patrēs familiārum |
| genitive | patris familiās | patrum familiās patrum familiārum |
| dative | patrī familiās | patribus familiās patribus familiārum |
| accusative | patrem familiās | patrēs familiās patrēs familiārum |
| ablative | patre familiās | patribus familiās patribus familiārum |
| vocative | pater familiās | patrēs familiās patrēs familiārum |
Descendants
- → French: père de famille (calque)
- Italian: padrefamiglia;
→ Italian: padre di famiglia (calque)
- → Portuguese: pai de família (calque)
- Sicilian: patrifamigghia
- → Sicilian: patri di famigghia (calque)
- → Spanish: padre de familia (calque)
Further reading
- “pater familias”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers