Pater
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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