Pater may refer to:
- the 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
- as a geographical name
- Pater (village)
- as a surname:
- Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695-1736), French painter
- Walter Pater (1839-1893), English essayist, critic, and humanist
in popular culture
- Pater (film), a 2011 French film
- Pater Moeskroen, Dutch Folkband
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Famous quotes containing the word pater:
“She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“The youngest of four sons, but not the youngest of the family!—you conceive the sort of negligence that creeps over even the kindest maternities, in such case ...”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)