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Maybe grandfather becam Pater as a short form of this:
Pater familias
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The pater familias, also written as paterfamilias (plural patres familias), was the head of a Roman family. The paterfamilias was the oldest living male in a household. He had complete control of all family members. The term is Latin for "father of the family" or the "owner of the family estate". The form is archaic in Latin, preserving the old genitive ending in -ās (see Latin declension), whereas in classical Latin the normal genitive ending was -ae. The pater familias was always a Roman citizen.
Then in USA it was slowly changed to Pete as a shorting as we like to give nicknames and short names. We tend to be to busy to say whole words!
Pater familias
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The pater familias, also written as paterfamilias (plural patres familias), was the head of a Roman family. The paterfamilias was the oldest living male in a household. He had complete control of all family members. The term is Latin for "father of the family" or the "owner of the family estate". The form is archaic in Latin, preserving the old genitive ending in -ās (see Latin declension), whereas in classical Latin the normal genitive ending was -ae. The pater familias was always a Roman citizen.
Then in USA it was slowly changed to Pete as a shorting as we like to give nicknames and short names. We tend to be to busy to say whole words!