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μητροπάτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μητροπάτωρ μητροπάτορος

Structure: μητροπατορος (Stem)

Sense

  1. one's mother's father

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐφ’ ἡμέρασ δ’ ἐννέα ξενισθεὶσ παρὰ Μενελάῳ, τῇ δεκάτῃ πορευθέντοσ εἰσ Κρήτην ἐκείνου κηδεῦσαι τὸν μητροπάτορα Κατρέα, πείθει τὴν Ἑλένην ἀπαγαγεῖν σὺν ἑαυτῷ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 3 4:1)
  • χώσαντα δ’ αὐτῷ τὸν μητροπάτορα τάφον ἐπὶ τῷ λόφῳ Παλλάντιον ἐπὶ τοῦ μειρακίου τὸν τόπον ὀνομάσαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 32 1:3)
  • πολλῶν δὲ συνελθόντων ἅμα τοῖσ ἐπαιτίοισ ἐπὶ τῇ προφάσει τῆσ δίκησ φράσαντα τοῖσ νεανίσκοισ τὸν μητροπάτορα πᾶσαν τὴν καταλαβοῦσαν αὐτοὺσ τύχην καὶ φήσαντα τιμωρίαν νῦν εἴ ποτε καιρὸν εἶναι λαβεῖν, αὐτίκα ποιήσασθαι σὺν τῷ νομευτικῷ πλήθει τὴν ἐπίθεσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 84 11:1)
  • τοῦτον δὴ ὦν τὸν Ἀστυάγεα Κῦροσ ἐόντα ἑωυτοῦ μητροπάτορα καταστρεψάμενοσ ἔσχε δι’ αἰτίην τὴν ἐγὼ ἐν τοῖσι ὀπίσω λόγοισι σημανέω· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 75 2:1)
  • ταῦτα δέ, δοκέειν ἐμοί, ἐμιμέετο ὁ Κλεισθένησ οὗτοσ τὸν ἑωυτοῦ μητροπάτορα Κλεισθένεα τὸν Σικυῶνοσ τύραννον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 67 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. one's mother's father

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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