different between abba vs pater

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek, from Aramaic ????/???? (?abb??, “father”); see abbot.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb.?/, /æ?b?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æb.?/, /æ?b?/
• Rhymes: -æb?

Noun

abba (plural abbas)

1. (Christianity, Judaism) Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

abba (plural abbas)

1. Alternative form of aba

References

Anagrams

• AABB, baba

Afar

Etymology

From Proto-Afroasiatic *?ab-, from a nursery word. Cognates include Somali aabo and Hebrew ???? (’ab?’).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?b?/
• Hyphenation: ab?ba

Noun

abbá m (plural abbobtí f or abboobí f)

1. father
2. chief
3. director

Declension

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985) , “abba”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, ?ISBN
• Enid M. Parker (2006) English-Afar dictionary, Dunwoody Press, ?ISBN, page vi
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 113

Afrikaans

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.ba/

Verb

abba (present abba, present participle abbaende, past participle geabba)

1. (transitive) to carry on one's back

Corsican

Noun

abba f

1. Alternative form of apa

Gothic

Romanization

abba

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Hungarian

Etymology

az (“that”) +? -ba (“into”). The z of the demonstrative pronoun assimilates with the -b of the suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??b??]
• Hyphenation: ab?ba

Pronoun

abba

1. illative singular of az

Usage notes

It points to the inside of an object that is farther away from the speaker. Its opposite pair is ebbe which points to the inside of an object close to the speaker.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin abba, from Ancient Greek ???? (abba), from Aramaic ????/???? (?abb??, “father”). Doublet of abate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ab.ba/
• Rhymes: -abba
• Hyphenation: àb?ba

Noun

abba m (singular only)

1. (Christianity, Judaism) abba

Related terms

• abate

References

• abba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek ???? (abba), from Aramaic ????/???? (?abb??, “father”), whence also Late Latin abb?s.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ab.ba/, [?äb?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ab.ba/, [??b??]

Noun

abba m (indeclinable)

1. father

   Synonym: pater

Descendants

• ? Italian: abba
• Norwegian Bokmål: abba

References

• abba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• abba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (??, happa).

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [?pp??], (enunciated) [?p? p??]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /?æp?p?æ?/
• Bender phonemes: {habbah}

Noun

abba (construct form abbain)

1. (alienable) dynamite

Synonyms

• bo?kutan?

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin abba (“father”), from Ancient Greek ???? (abba, “father, title of respect given to abbots”), from Aramaic ???? (’abb?, “father, teacher, ancestor, leader”), from Proto-Semitic *?abw- (“father”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *?ab-, ultimately an onomatopoeic nursery word. Doublet of abbed and abbé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ab?a/
• Rhymes: -ab?a
• Hyphenation: ab?ba

Noun

abba

1. (Christianity, Judaism) Abba or Father (when speaking directly with God through prayer)

References

• “abba” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “abba” in Store norske leksikon

Anagrams

• baba

Nyunga

Interjection

abba

1. g'day

References

• 2011, Bindon, P. and Chadwick, R. (compilers and editors), A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum (Welshpool, WA), 2nd ed.

Old Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abba.

Noun

abba m

1. abbot

Inflection

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Italic *ak??, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?eh?. Compare Romanian ap?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ab.ba/

Noun

abba f (plural abbas)

1. water
2. (by extension) rain

   Synonym: proja

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and père.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pe?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pe?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

pater (plural paters)

1. (formal or humorous) father
   • 1900, Harry B. Norris, Burlington Bertie (song)

     Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay
     He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way
     He spends the good oof that his pater has made
     Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: pater

See also

• mater
• padre
• patrician

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pat?r]

Noun

pater

1. genitive plural of patro

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *pat?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. Doublet of vader and va.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: pa?ter
• Rhymes: -a?t?r

Noun

pater m (plural paters, diminutive patertje n)

1. (Roman Catholicism) father (as a religious title)

Derived terms

• bloedpater

Related terms

• paternoster
• Paternoster

Anagrams

• prate

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pater, from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *pat?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pa.t?r]
• Hyphenation: pa?têr

Noun

patêr (first-person possessive paterku, second-person possessive patermu, third-person possessive paternya)

1. (Catholicism) priest.

   Synonyms: pastor, rama

Further reading

• “pater” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pat?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. As a titular suffix, shares cognate roots with Old Latin Di?spiter (“Father Jove”), Latin Iuppiter (“Jupiter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa.ter/, [?pät??r]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?pa?.ter/, [?pa?ter]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.ter/, [?p??t??r]

Noun

pater m (genitive patris); third declension

1. father (male parent)
2. head of household
3. parent
4. forefather
5. priest
6. honorific title

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Neapolitan: pate
  • Old Italian: patre
    • Italian: padre
      • ? English: padre
  • Sicilian: patri
• Western Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: pèder
    • Ligurian: paire, poæ
    • Lombard: pader
    • Piedmontese: pare
    • Venetian: pare
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: pâre
    • Old French: pere, pedre
      • Bourguignon: peire
      • Middle French: pere
        • French: père
          • ? Dutch: pere
          • ? English: père
        • Norman: père, pére, péthe
      • Walloon: pere
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Ladino:

      Hebrew: ??????

      Latin: padre

    • Mozarabic:

      Arabic: ???????? (patri)

      Hebrew: ???????? (patri)

    • Old Leonese: [Term?]
      • Asturian: pá, pai, padre
      • Extremaduran: pairi
      • Leonese: pai
      • Mirandese: pai
      • Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
        • Aragonese: pai
    • Old Portuguese: padre
      • Galician: padre
      • Portuguese: padre (see there for further descendants)
    • ? Old Portuguese: pay
      • Galician: pai
      • Portuguese: pai
        • Guinea-Bissau Creole: pai
        • Indo-Portuguese: pai
        • Kabuverdianu: pai
        • Kristang: pai
        • Sãotomense: pe
          • Annobonese: pe
    • Old Spanish: padre
      • Spanish: padre
        • ? Classical Nahuatl: padre
        • ? English: padre
        • ? Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa?lej
        • ? Tagalog: pari
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Old Occitan: paire
      • Catalan: pare
      • Occitan: paire
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: pari
    • Romansch: pader
• ? Dutch: pater
• ? English: pater
  • Tok Pisin: pater
• ? Romanian: pater

See also

• genitor
• m?ter
• par?ns

References

• pater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pater in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pater.

Noun

pater m

1. father (term of address for a Christian priest)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English pater (Christian priests are often referred to as 'Father'), from Latin pater.

Noun

pater

1. priest