paternoster

Meaning

Noun

1. The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
2. A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
3. A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
4. A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.
5. (archaic) A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said.
6. (archaic) Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
7. (archaic) A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
8. (archaic) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.

Verb

To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.

Synonyms

Our Father

Lord’s prayer

rosary

pater

prayer

request

rogation

supplication

Lord’s Prayer

bucket chain

continuous bucket elevator

chain-and-bucket elevator

chuck bucket elevator

beads

Lord's Prayer

lord’s prayer

orison

Translations

Notre Père

Padre Nostro

Gebet des Herrn

Vaterunser

Paternoster

pai-nosso

πάτερ ημών

Unser Vater

Onzevader

Beten

Betende

Antrag

Betender

Paternosteraufzug

توسل

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɑːtəˌnɒstə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: paternoster

Inherited from Old English: pater noster

In summary

From Middle English paternoster, pater noster, from Old English Paternoster, from Latin Pater noster (“our father”) (the first two words of the Oratio Dominica (“the Lord's prayer”)), from pater (“father”) + noster (“our”). The lift and the fishing equipment are named from their resemblance to a rosary.