Paternoster

From Latin pater (“father”) + noster (“ours”).

Paternoster (plural Paternosters)

1. Alternative form of paternoster (“Lord's Prayer”).
   • 1891 January 3, I. Gollancz, “Widishins”, in The Academy, London, page 14, column 3:

     If Burd Ellen had gone “widishins" round the church, she would, I think, have used the best homoeopathic specific against the Elf-King's power; for "to go widishins" was the chief element in elfin practices, and if mortals wished to resist or unspell elf-craft, they, too, had "to go widershins," or they had to repeat the Paternoster backwards, which came to the same thing, or do something else contrariwise.

2. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Paternoster is the 26814^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 907 individuals. Paternoster is most common among White (95.15%) individuals.

• penetrators, seropattern, transportee

From Middle Dutch pater noster, from Latin Pater noster.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.tərˈnɔs.tər/

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• Hyphenation: Pa‧ter‧nos‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɔstər

Paternoster m or n (plural Paternosters, no diminutive)

1. (Roman Catholicism) Lord's Prayer

   Synonym: Onzevader

• paternoster

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Paternoster n (strong, genitive Paternosters, plural Paternoster)

1. Lord's Prayer

   Synonym: Vaterunser

2. rosary

   Synonym: Rosenkranz

Paternoster m (strong, genitive Paternosters, plural Paternoster)

1. paternoster lift

   Synonyms: Paternosteraufzug, Fahrstuhl ohne Fahrkorbtür, Umlaufaufzug, Personenumlaufaufzug, Paternoster-Umlaufaufzug, Beamtenbagger, Beamtenheber, Bonzenheber, Bonzenbagger, Bonzenschleuder, Proletenbagger

2. (fishing) additional side lines on the line

• “Paternoster” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from Latin Pater noster

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑ.terˌnos.ter/

Paternoster m

1. the Lord's Prayer

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Pater-noster”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.