Pater

Pater may refer to:

Latin for "father"[edit]

a title given to a father deity
- Dis Pater, a Roman and Celtic god of the underworld, later subsumed by Pluto or Jupiter
- God the Father in Christianity
a title or honorific applied to a male community leader
- a honorific for ordained Catholic priests
- Pater familias
- Pater Patriae
- Pater, the leader of a Mithraeum in Mithraism

People with the surname[edit]

Grzegorz Pater (born 1974), Polish soccer player
Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695–1736), French painter
Walter Pater (1839–1893), English essayist, critic and humanist

Popular culture[edit]

Pater (film), a 2011 French film
Pater Moeskroen, Dutch Folkband
Stade Pater Te Hono Nui, a stadium/sports complex in Pirae, Tahiti

Other uses[edit]

Pastil, a Filipino packed rice dish

See also[edit]

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