patro

Inherited from Old Czech patro, from Proto-Slavic *pętro.

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patro n

1. floor, storey
2. (anatomy) palate (roof of the mouth)

• podlaží n
• poschodí n

• patro in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• patro in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• patro in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

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• Rhymes: -atro
• Hyphenation: pa‧tro

patro (accusative singular patron, plural patroj, accusative plural patrojn)

1. father

   Mia patro amas min.

   My father loves me.

   La patro de mia patro estas mia avo.

   My father's father is my grandfather.

   La amiko kiun vidis mia patro.

   The friend whom my father saw.

   La amiko kiu vidis mian patron.

   The friend who saw my father

• (diminutive) patreto
• (nonstandard) patriĉo (“father”)
• (child's term) paĉjo (“dad, daddy”)

• gepatro (“parent”)

• patrino (“mother”)

• vicpatro, duonpatro (“stepfather”)

• patr' in Fundamento de Esperanto by L. L. Zamenhof, 1905

From Esperanto patro, from German Pater, Italian padre, Spanish padre, all ultimately from Latin pater, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tro/

patro (plural patri)

1. father
2. (figuratively) title showing respect
3. (Christianity) Father
4. (archaic) parent

Originally patro meant "parent", while the derivatives patrulo meant "father" and patrino meant "mother", but in later times this was changed so patro meant father, while adding genitoro and matro to mean "parent" and "mother".

• papa
• (diminutive) patreto
• (archaic) patrulo

• genitoro (“parent”)

• matro
• mama
• (diminutive) matreto
• (archaic) patrino

• patrala (“fatherly, paternal; patronymic”)
• patratra (“fatherly, paternal”)
• patreto (“daddy”)
• stifa patro/stif-patro (“stepfather”)
• baptopatro (“godfather”)
• bopatro (“father-in-law”)

• patr-o in Ido-English Dictionary by L. H. Dyer, 1924

pater (“father”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.troː/, [ˈpät̪roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tro/, [ˈpäːt̪ro]

patrō (present infinitive patrāre, perfect active patrāvī, supine patrātum); first conjugation

1. to execute, conclude, finish, accomplish

   Synonyms: perficiō, dēfungor, cōnficiō, agō, cumulō, absolvō, nāvō, inclūdō, conclūdō, condō, claudō, expleō, fungor, efficiō, exsequor, perpetrō, trānsigō, exhauriō

2. to orgasm, ejaculate

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• impetrō
• perpetrō

• “patro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• patro in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “patro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “patro”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• 1826, Pierre Pierrugues, Glossarium Eroticum Linguae Latinae, pages 381-382.