Pater

Pater may refer to:

Latin for "father"

 * a title given to a father deity
 * Dis Pater, a Roman and Celtic god of the underworld, later subsumed by Pluto or Jupiter
 * God the Father in Christianity
 * a title or honorific applied to a male community leader
 * a honorific for ordained Catholic priests
 * Pater familias
 * Pater Patriae
 * Pater, the leader of a Mithraeum in Mithraism

People with the surname

 * Grzegorz Pater (born 1974), Polish soccer player
 * Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695–1736), French painter
 * Walter Pater (1839–1893), English essayist, critic and humanist

Popular culture

 * Pater (film), a 2011 French film
 * Pater Moeskroen, Dutch Folkband
 * Stade Pater Te Hono Nui, a stadium/sports complex in Pirae, Tahiti

Other uses

 * Pastil, a Filipino packed rice dish