At first glance, an English word like father looks pretty different from the Latin word pater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Is Coming!] Reference

Ruæus thinks that the word pater is to be referr’d to Evander, the father of Pallas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dedication] Reference

From? pater,? we also get the Latin word for? fatherland,? so that now we know what a? patriot? is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alliance]

The word pater, for example, signifies not only a father, but your father, my father, his or her father, all included in a word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dedication] Reference

The pater is the Duke of Ruthby, seventh in the line, and twenty-first Earl of Avondale; but he's a crack-up jolly old chap, I assure you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of the Primitive] Reference

The "pater" of one of the actors is rich and owns the beach house where they're staying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Work Off-Broadway] Reference

Ruams the word pater is to be referred to Evander.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the English Poets] Reference

Well, let us rather go to the 'pater' than to the rabbi; but at least let my servants keep their old names. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Debts of Honor] Reference

I wish you'd speak to your pater about it, Morrison.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Scholarship Boy] Reference

You don't know my pater, 'he went on, a little plaintively.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Scholarship Boy] Reference

'Don't make the pater out worse than he is, my dear mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah's School Friend] Reference

Virorum optimus, pater meus, maiorum consuetudini deditus. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

That's what my pater says, and I guess he knows as much as most.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Scholarship Boy] Reference

'Yes, I know; my pater has heard of it, and wants me to join it.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Scholarship Boy] Reference

'But the pater does not keep a store of chemicals,' said Leonard.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Scholarship Boy] Reference

I told Taylor he had better come and see the pater himself about it. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Scholarship Boy] Reference

They say I must get the pater to remove Howard from the school at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Scholarship Boy] Reference

"Let us at least recite a pater, an ave, and a gloria to St. Luke," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference

It's an awful nuisance, and I shall probably have a row with the pater. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah's School Friend] Reference

'Parvaque tam magnis admoram fontibus ora, unde pater sitiens Ennius ante bibit.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

The fourth bed was Mellor's, but his pater took him away for some reason or other last term.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

Dies pater, Father of Day, is making rapid strides across the heavens, creating havoc as he goes.    From Wordnik.com.  [April's Lady A Novel] Reference

And mind, if you hear about this, you don't know anything, but just tell the pater to ask me about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Scholarship Boy] Reference

The date of Encolpius 'adventures cannot be under Tiberius, for the emperor is called' pater patriae '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Patriotism began away back yonder when sons and daughters were taught love and loyalty to the pater, the father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference

The pater had always been interested in the lonely old boy, so he sent me over to see if I could do anything for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference

As if my pater has not told me a dozen times lately that he wishes he had sent me to a board school when I was young.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Scholarship Boy] Reference

The pater may be a bit of a tartar sometimes, but he's respectable enough, in all conscience, 'remonstrated her brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah's School Friend] Reference

'Quick! in with you; there's the pater!' cried George, who, polite as usual, was holding the cab-door open for his sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah's School Friend] Reference

'I tell you it must be some of the other fellows that must go and explain to the pater that the school don't like scholarship boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Scholarship Boy] Reference