père

== English == === Alternative forms === pere === Etymology === Borrowed from French père (“father”), from Latin pater. Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and pater. === Pronunciation === enPR: pâr, IPA(key): /pɛə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ) Homophones: pair, pare, pear === Noun === père (plural pères) A priest of the Roman Catholic Church, especially a French one. Also used as a title preceding the name of such a priest. Sr. - Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the father is being referred to rather than the son (junior, fils). ==== Usage notes ==== Current usage of differentiating fathers and sons is borrowed from French; hence this term follows the name as it does in French grammar. === See also === fils === Anagrams === pree, Reep, peer, Pree == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French pere, from Old French pedre, pedra, pere, from Latin patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɛʁ/ (Europe) IPA(key): [pɛːʁ] (Quebec) IPA(key): [paɛ̯ʁ] (Louisiana) IPA(key): [pæɾ] Rhymes: -ɛʁ Homophones: pair, paire, paires, pairs, perd, perds, pères === Noun === père m (plural pères) father (parent) Coordinate term: (mother) mère father (clergyman) Sr. (senior) (postnominal title used to indicate a father that shares the same name as the son) Antonym: (Jr.) fils ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: pere → English: père === Further reading === “père”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Norman == === Etymology 1 === From Old French pedre, pere, from Latin pater, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. ==== Noun ==== père m (plural pères) (continental) father ===== Alternative forms ===== péthe (Jersey) pére (Guernsey) ===== Hypernyms ===== parent ===== Coordinate terms ===== (gender): mère === Etymology 2 === From Old French peire, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as feminine singular. ==== Noun ==== père f (plural pères) (Guernsey) pear ===== Alternative forms ===== peire (continental Normandy) paithe (Jersey)