father
/ˈfɑːðər/·파더·noun
a male parent
Old EnglishCEFR A1
Root
Proto-Indo-European '*ph2ter' (father)
PIE *ph2ter → Proto-Germanic *fadēr → Old English fæder → Middle English fader → Modern father
In a word
PIE *ph2ter. Latin pater, Greek patēr, Sanskrit pitar, English father, the worldwide papa. One of humanity's oldest words, barely changed across millennia. Linguists trace it to the first "p" a baby manages to make.
Examples
My father works at a hospital.
He became a father last year.
Newton is called the father of physics.
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