Pater Noster

Variant of paternoster

paternoster definition

pater·nos·ter (pät′ər näs′tər, pat′-)

noun

  1. the Lord's Prayer, esp. in Latin
    often Pater Noster
    1. one of the large beads of a rosary on which the Lord's Prayer is said
    2. Archaic a rosary
  3. a muttered prayer or incantation

Etymology: ME < ML(Ec) < LL(Ec) Pater noster, opening words of the Lord's Prayer < L pater, father + noster, our: see nostrum

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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