Pater Explained

Pater may refer to:

Latin for "father"

• 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

• 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

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

Other uses

• Pastil, a Filipino packed rice dish

See also

• Pater noster
• Patriarch
• Patriarchy
• Mater (disambiguation)