| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | p ter- |
| DEFINITION: | Father. Oldest form *p2ter-. 1. father; forefather, from Old English fæder, father, from Germanic *fadar. 2. padre, pater, paternal, patri-, patrician, patrimony, patron, père; compadre, expatriate, goombah, perpetrate, from Latin pater, father. 3. patri-, patriot; allopatric, eupatrid, patriarch, sympatric, from Greek pat r, father. (Pokorny pt´(r) 829.) |
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