Father vs. Pater — What's the Difference?

A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship with the child that carries with it certain rights and obligations.

Father.

A male whose sperm unites with an egg, producing an embryo.

Father.

A male whose impregnation of a female results in the birth of a child.

An informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

A man who adopts a child.

A man who raises a child.

A male parent of an animal.

A male ancestor

A man who creates, originates, or founds something

A man who serves or is thought of as a protector

God.

The first person of the Christian Trinity.

An elderly or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.

One of the leading men, as of a city

Or Father A church father.

A member of the senate in ancient Rome.

A priest or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.

Used as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman's name.

To provide the sperm that unites with an egg to produce (an embryo, fetus, or child).

To act or serve as a father to (a child).

To create, found, or originate

To attribute the paternity, creation, or origin of

To act or serve as a father.

A (generally human) male who begets a child.

A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.

A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

A term of respectful address for a priest.

A person who plays the role of a father in some way.

The founder of a discipline or science.

Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.

Something inanimate that begets.

(Christianity) A member of a church council.

(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.

To be a father to; to sire.

(figuratively) To give rise to.

To act as a father; to support and nurture.

To provide with a father.

To adopt as one's own.

One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.

A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; - in the plural, fathers, ancestors.

One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.

A respectful mode of address to an old man.

A senator of ancient Rome.

A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.

One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; - often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.

One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.

The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.

To make one's self the father of; to beget.

To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).

To provide with a father.

A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father);

The founder of a family;

`Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Lation Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization;

God when considered as the first person in the Trinity;

A person who founds or establishes some institution;

The head of an organized crime family

Make children;