paternoster

See also: Paternoster, páternoster, Pater noster, and pater noster

English

WOTD – 27 March 2016

A paternoster elevator

Etymology

From Middle English paternoster, pater noster, from Old English Paternoster, from Latin Pater noster (“our father”) (the first two words of the Oratio Dominica (“the Lord's prayer”)), from pater (“father”) + noster (“our”). The lift and the fishing equipment are named from their resemblance to a rosary.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːtəˌnɒstə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑtəɹˌnɔstɚ/, /-ˌnɑstɚ/
• Hyphenation: pa‧ter‧nos‧ter

Noun

paternoster (plural paternosters)

1. (Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
2. A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
3. (architecture) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
4. (fishing) A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.
   • 2011, Jamin Forbes, “Tackle”, in Cod Cod Cod, Croydon, Vic.: Australian Fishing Network, →ISBN, page 56:

     A paternoster is any style of hook rig where the hook(s) are on droppers above a fixed sinker. One or two hooks are used on a paternoster rig. The droppers are tied using dropper loops tied directly in the line. The twisted dropper is an ideal knot as it stands out at right angles to the line.

   • 2012, Peter Kaminsky, Greg Schwipps, Dominic Garnett, Fishing for Dummies, UK edition, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     In plain terms, the paternoster is a rig with the weight at the bottom and hook traces (sometimes called snoods by sea anglers) attached above in fixed positions. Besides a tidy presentation, this arrangement allows the sea angler to try more than one bait and you'll often find paternosters with two hooks (or even three or four). Effectively this allows us to hedge our bets and try more baits (which could be the same or different types), thereby increasing the scent and attraction.

   • 2016, D[avid] A. Weaver, Sea Angling Rig Book, rev. edition, [s.l.]: M. P. Dawn Publications:

     PATERNOSTER TWIN This rig is slightly more complicated than the single paternoster, however this rig has the added advantage of having two hooks, these can be different sizes and be baited with different baits.

5. (Christianity, archaic) A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.
6. (Christianity, archaic) Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.
7. (Christianity, archaic) A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.
8. (archaic) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.

Derived terms

• paternoster lake
• paternoster pump
• paternoster wheel
• paternoster while

Translations

Lord's prayer

• Afrikaans: Onse Vader
• Arabic: اَلصَّلَاة اَلرَّبِّيَّة f (aṣ-ṣalā(t) ar-rabbiyya)
• Bulgarian: Отче наш (Otče naš)
• Catalan: paternòster (ca) m, parenostre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主禱文／主祷文 (zh) (zhǔdǎowén)

• Czech: otčenáš (cs) m
• Danish: fadervor n
• Dutch: Onzevader (nl) n
• French: Notre Père (fr) m
• German: Vaterunser (de) n; Unservater n; Paternoster (de) n; Gebet des Herrn n; Herrengebet n (roughly in order of currency)
• Hungarian: miatyánk (hu), páternoszter (hu)
• Irish: Ár nAthair, An Phaidir f
• Japanese: 主の祈り (しゅのいのり, shu-no inori)
• Middle English: pater noster
• Romanian: Tatăl Nostru m
• Russian: о́тче наш m (ótče naš) (отче - vocative of отец (otéc)), О́тче наш (ru) m (Ótče naš)
• Spanish: paternóster m, padrenuestro m
• Swedish: paternoster n, fadervår (sv) c, Herrens bön (sv) c

slow, continuously moving lift

• Czech: páternoster (cs) m, oběžný výtah m
• Danish: paternosterelevator c
• German: Paternoster (de) m, Paternosteraufzug m, Personen-Umlaufaufzug m, Beamtenbagger m
• Hungarian: páternoszter (hu)
• Romanian: paternoster (ro) n
• Swedish: paternosterhiss (sv) c

a rosary — see rosary

Verb

paternoster (third-person singular simple present paternosters, present participle paternostering, simple past and past participle paternostered)

1. (fishing, transitive) To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.

Further reading

• Lord's prayer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Paternoster lift on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• penetrators, seropattern, transportee

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch paternoster, from Latin Pater noster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.tərˈnɔs.tər/

• Audio:

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

Noun

paternoster m or n (plural paternosters, diminutive paternostertje n)

1. (Roman Catholicism) a rosary, a paternoster

   Synonym: rozenkrans

See also

• Paternoster

Middle English

Noun

paternoster

1. Alternative form of pater noster

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Pater noster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.tɛrˈnɔs.tɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɔstɛr
• Syllabification: pa‧ter‧nos‧ter

Noun

paternoster m inan

1. (Christianity, especially Roman Catholicism) Lord's Prayer (prayer which, according to the New Testament of the Bible, Jesus Christ taught his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount)

   Synonyms: Modlitwa Pańska, ojczenasz, Ojcze nasz

2. (mechanics) paternoster (slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building)

   Synonyms: dźwig okrężny, winda paciorkowa

3. (Christianity) paternoster, rosary (string of beads used in counting prayers that are said)
4. (fishing) paternoster (tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker)
5. (archaic, humorous) rebuke, warning

   Synonyms: upomnienie, bura

Declension

Declension of paternoster

	singular	plural
nominative	paternoster	paternostery
genitive	paternosteru	paternosterów
dative	paternosterowi	paternosterom
accusative	paternoster	paternostery
instrumental	paternosterem	paternosterami
locative	paternosterze	paternosterach
vocative	paternosterze	paternostery

Further reading

• paternoster in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• paternoster in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• paternoster in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pater-noster or German Paternoster.

Noun

paternoster n (uncountable)

1. paternoster lift

Declension

declension of paternoster (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) paternoster	paternosterul
genitive/dative	(unui) paternoster	paternosterului
vocative	paternosterule

Swedish

Noun

paternoster n

1. (Christianity) paternoster (the Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context)

   Synonyms: fadervår, Herrens bön

2. (Christianity) a paternoster (rosary)

   Synonyms: radband, rosenkrans, rosarium

Declension

Declension of paternoster

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	paternoster	paternosters
	definite	-	-
plural	indefinite	paternoster	paternosters
	definite	-	-

Derived terms

• paternosterhiss

References

• paternoster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• paternoster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• paternoster in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)