pater tris, m 1 PA-, a father, sire: Tuus hercle vero et animo et naturā pater, T.: patre certo nasci: captivā natus, patre nullo, matre servā, i. e. by an unknown father, L.

—Of a fosterfather, T.

—Poet.: Rexque patrem vicit, i. e. paternal love, O.

—Rarely of animals: virque paterque gregis, O.

—In the phrase, pater familias or pater familiae, the head of the household, father of a family, householder

— see familia.

—Plur, fathers, forefathers, ancestors, progenitors: patrum nostrorum aetas: apud patres nostros.

—As a title of reverence or respect: ipse pater Fulmina molitur dextrā, i. e. Jupiter, V.: Lemnius, i. e. Vulcan, V.: Lenaeus, i. e. Bacchus, V.: pater Silvane, H.: Tiberine, L.: pater Aeneas, V.: vel aetate vel curae similitudine patres adpellabantur (senatores), S.: patres ab honore appellati, L.: Zeno, pater Stoicorum: Herodotus historiae: cenae, host, H.: esuritionum (of a starving pauper), Ct.

—In the phrase, pater patriae, father of his country: quem patrem patriae nominarant: Roma patrem patriae Ciceronem libera dixit, Iu.

—For the phrase, pater patratus, see patratus.

—For the phrase, patres conscripti, see conscriptus.