Pater
# 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
