Pater - Meaning of Pater

What does Pater mean?

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Pater

[ 2 syll. pa-ter, pat-er ] The baby boy name Pater is pronounced as PAA-T-er †. Pater is largely used in Dutch and English, and its origin is Dutch. Pater is of the meaning father superior.

See also the related categories, superior (king) and dutch.

Pater is an uncommon baby name for boys. It is not listed within the top 1000 names.

Baby names that sound like Pater include Potter (English), Pottor, Padrae, Padrai, Padraigh, Padray, Padraye, Padre, Peadair (Scottish), Peadar (English, Irish, and Scottish), Peader (Gaelic), Peater, Peddyr, Peder (English and Scandinavian), Pedr (English and Welsh), Pedro (English, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), Peiter, Peter (Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Scandinavian), Petr (Czech, Russian, and Slavic), and Petre (Romanian).

† Pronunciation for Pater: P as in "pea (P.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; T as in "tee (T.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)"