pai

Meaning

1. (masculine) father (male who sires a child)
2. (masculine) one's father
3. (masculine, plural-normally) parent (either a mother or a father)
4. (figuratively, masculine) father (the founder of a discipline or science)

Concepts

father

👨‍👦

parent

dad

👨‍👦

daddy

👨‍👦

begetter

papa

👨‍👦

pa

Father

👨‍👦

male parent

fathers

pop

dada

pappa

your father

parents

male parents

paternal effects

’rents

Pa

daddy-o

fader

fatherhood

mother

👩‍🍼

paternity

paw

poppa

pops

senior

sire

sires

Lord

Synonyms

papai

👨‍👦

papá

👨‍👦

painho

mãe

👩‍🍼

genitor

progenitor

paternidade

elemento principal

ascendente masculino

principal

tronco

Translations

padre

👨‍👦

Vater

👨‍👦

père

👨‍👦

padre

👨‍👦

vader

👨‍👦

pare

👨‍👦

pater

👨‍👦

baba

👨‍👦

πατέρας

babbo

👨‍👦

papà

👨‍👦

ata

papa

👨‍👦

papá

👨‍👦

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpaj/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: pater

Cognate with Galician: pai

Cognate with Aragonese: pai

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese pay < *pade, child-speech forms of padre, from Latin patrem, the accusative of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of padre.
Compare mãe (“mother”), which underwent a similar phonetic reduction from its root (Latin mater), and, in addition, was nasalized, perhaps because it was more frequently used than this word.
Cognate with Galician pai, Mirandese and Leonese pai and Aragonese pai.

Sentences

Tenho idade para ser seu pai .

I'm old enough to be your father.

O pai e a mãe eram do Sul .

His father and mother were from the South.

É muito parecido com o pai dele .

It's a lot like his father.

Meu pai está tão ocupado que não tem tempo para ler livros .

My father is so busy that he doesn't have time to read books.

Meu pai não fuma nem bebe .

My father doesn't smoke or drink.

Eu estava tão impotente quando vi meu pai chorando na minha frente .

I was so helpless when I saw my father crying in front of me.