Pater

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Pater may refer to:

as 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 surname

Grzegorz Pater (born 1974), Polish soccer player
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
Stade Pater Te Hono Nui, a stadium/sports complex in Pirae, Tahiti

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