Vater

Borrowed from German Vater.

Vater (plural Vaters)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Vater is the 37076^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 602 individuals. Vater is most common among White (95.85%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Vater”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• Vatter (obsolete, except informally, representing the regional pronunciation)

From Middle High German vater, from Old High German fater, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Germanic cognates include Dutch vader, Low German Vader, English father, Danish fader, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌳𐌰𐍂 (fadar).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaːtər/, /ˈfaːtɐ/, [ˈfɑːtʰɐ]
• IPA^(key): [ˈfatʰɐ] (Rheinish, Westphalian)
• IPA^(key): [ˈfɑːtər] (Swiss, Austro-Bavarian)

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Vater m (strong, genitive Vaters, plural Väter, diminutive Väterchen n)

1. father

   Coordinate terms: (by birth order) Sohn m; (by sex) Mutter f

   Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unsere neun Planeten.

   My father explains to me our nine planets every Sunday.

• Gevatter

• “Vater” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Vater” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Vater” in Duden online
• Vater on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Vater”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891