| отец |
| 1. n. father | |
| крёстный оте́ц — godfather | |
| духо́вный оте́ц — confessor (see also духовник, исповедник) | |
| свято́й оте́ц — priest | |
| посажённый оте́ц — (at a wedding) proxy, sponsor | |
| отцов много, а мать одна́ (saying) — there are many fathers but only one mother | |
| не хвали́сь отцо́м, а хвали́сь сы́ном-молодцо́м (proverb) — don’t be proud of father, but take pride in a good son | |
| муж жене́ оте́ц, жена́ му́жу вене́ц (proverb) — a husband is a father to his wife, and the wife is a crown for him | |
| 2. n. ancestor | |
| отцы́ на́ши э́того не знава́ли и нам не приказа́ли (saying) — our ancestors didn’t know of this and didn’t guide us. | |
| 3. n. senior, superior, first of, chief | |
| Арара́т-гора́ — всем гора́м оте́ц — Mount Ararat is the father of mountains | |
| 4. n. familiar term of address for an elderly man | |
| 5. n. (colloquial) referring to a man who cares about sоmеbody or something like a father | |
| как родно́й оте́ц — like one’s own father | |
| Адам — оте́ц ро́да челове́ческого — Adam is the Father of man | |
| Сталин — отец народов — Stalin is the father of the nations | |
| 6. n. (colloquial) founder, initiator of something | |
| Дарвин — отец тео́рии эволю́ции — Darwin is the founder of the theory of evolution | |
| оте́ц враче́бной нау́ки — father of medicine (about Hippocratus) | |
| отцы-основатели — Founding Fathers | |
| 7. n. root, basis, source | |
| санскри́тский язы́к — оте́ц языко́в европе́йских — Sanskrit is a root of the Indo-European languages | |
| нужда́ оте́ц дога́дки (proverb) — (literally) need is the father of wit | |
