Latino sine flexione (iou) and father 1, noun (oh)

Latino sine flexione (iou)

Latino sine flexione noun phr. E20.
[Latin (Latino abl. of Latinus LATIN adjective) = in Latin without inflection.]
An artificial language intended for international use, in which nouns are taken from the ablative case of Latin nouns.

father 1, noun (oh)

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1 ?parent?
2 ?priest?
3 fathers
4 ?god?
5 the father of something
6 from father to son
7 like father like son
8 a bit of how's your father
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[Language: Old English; Origin: fAder]
?PARENT?
a male parent
::Ask your father to help you.
::Andrew was very excited about becoming a father.
::He's been like a father to me.
a father of two/three/four etc
(=a man with two, three etc children)
::The driver, a father of four, escaped uninjured.
::Steve recently became the proud father of a 7lb 12oz baby girl.
?PRIEST?
Father
a priest, especially in the Roman Catholic church
::I have sinned, Father.
::Father Devlin
-see also Holy Father
fathers [plural] people related to you who lived a long time ago
-synonym ancestors ancestors
::Our fathers were exiles from their native land.
-see also forefather
?GOD?
Father
a way of talking to or talking about God, used in the Christian Religion
::our Heavenly Father
the father of sth
the man who was responsible for starting something
::Freud is the father of psychoanalysis.
from father to son
if property or skill passes from father to son, children receive it or learn it from their parents
::This is a district where old Crafts are handed down from father to son.
like father like son
used to say that a boy behaves like his father, especially when this behaviour is bad
a bit of how's your father
BrE informal the act of having sex - used humorously
-see also city fathers , founding father

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