🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

padre

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ˈpa.ðɾe/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Father/ˈfɑː.ðər/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Mi padre me enseñó a montar en bicicleta."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A man in relation to his natural child or children.

    "He is a proud father of three wonderful children."
As verb
  1. 1

    To make someone pregnant; to be the biological father of a child.

    "He fathered his first child at the age of twenty-five."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'father' originates from the Old English 'fæder', which is derived from the Proto-Germanic '*fader', and ultimately traces back to the Proto-Indo-European root '*pəter', meaning 'to protect' or 'to care for'. Over centuries, the term has evolved to denote a male parent.

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