Signification

1. father (human male who begets a child)
2. father (animal male that begets a child)
3. father (person who instigates something)
4. father (member of a church council)
5. term of address for a priest; father
6. term of address for a man; father
7. father (ancestory)
8. (obsolete) protector
9. (dialectal,obsolete) parents
10. (obsolete) type of party game
11. (obsolete) great actor
12. (obsolete) starost
13. hermit
14. father (the Pope)
15. patron
16. scholar, theological writer (expert in the history of the Church and religion)