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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

  • καὶ γίνεται παῖσ αὐτῷ Ἐριχθόνιοσ, ὃσ ἁπάντων ἀνθρώπων εὐδαιμονέστατοσ λέγεται γενέσθαι τῆσ τε πατρῴασ καὶ τῆσ ὑπὸ τῷ μητροπάτορι γενομένησ κληρονομήσασ ἀρχῆσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 62 1:4)
  • χρόνου δέ τινοσ ἐν τούτῳ διαγενομένου, ἐπειδὴ οὐδὲν ἐμειοῦτο τὸ τῆσ στάσεωσ, δόξαν ἀμφοῖν τῷ μητροπάτορι ἐπιτέψαι παρῆσαν εἰσ τὴν Ἄλβαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 86 1:1)
  • καὶ τελεσθέντοσ αὐτῷ ταχέωσ τοῦ προστάγματοσ τοὺσ νεκροὺσ εἰσ Ἀλεξάνδρειον ἐκέλευσεν ἀνακομισθῆναι τὸ φρούριον συνταφησομένουσ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τῷ μητροπάτορι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 775:2)
  • Θησεὺσ τοίνυν γεγονὼσ Αἴθρασ τῆσ Πιτθέωσ καὶ Ποσειδῶνοσ, τραφεὶσ ἐν Τροιζῆνι παρὰ Πιτθεῖ τῷ μητροπάτορι, καὶ τὰ μυθολογούμενα σύμβολα ἀνῃρημένοσ τὰ ὑπὸ Αἰγέωσ ὑπό τινι πέτρᾳ τεθειμένα, κατήντησεν εἰσ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 59 1:2)

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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