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:
“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)
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)