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πατήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πατήρ πατέρος

Structure: πατερ (Stem)

Etym.: acc. always pate/ra gen. pl. rarely patrw=n

Sense

  1. father
  2. epithet of Zeus
  3. respectful full address of older people
  4. ancestor

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πατήρ πατέρε πατέρες
Genitive πατέρος, πατρός πατέροιν πατέρων
Dative πατέρι, πατρί πατέροιν πατράσι
Accusative πατέρα πατέρε πατέρας
Vocative πατέρ πατέρε πατέρες

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 εἶδε Χὰμ ὁ πατὴρ Χαναὰν τὴν γύμνωσιν τοῦ πατρὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξελθὼν ἀνήγγειλε τοῖσ δυσὶν ἀδελφοῖσ αὐτοῦ ἔξω. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 9:22)
  • καὶ λαβόντεσ Σὴμ καὶ Ἰάφεθ τὸ ἱμάτιον ἐπέθεντο ἐπὶ τὰ δύο νῶτα αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν ὀπισθοφανῶσ καὶ συνεκάλυψαν τὴν γύμνωσιν τοῦ πατρὸσ αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν ὀπισθοφανῶσ, καὶ τὴν γύμνωσιν τοῦ πατρὸσ αὐτῶν οὐκ εἶδον. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 9:23)
  • καὶ ἀπέθανεν Ἀρρὰν ἐνώπιον Θάρα τοῦ πατρὸσ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ γῇ, ᾗ ἐγεννήθη, ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ τῶν Χαλδαίων. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 11:28)
  • ΚΑΙ εἶπε Κύριοσ τῷ Ἅβραμ. ἔξελθε ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ σου καὶ ἐκ τῆσ συγγενείασ σου καὶ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρόσ σου καὶ δεῦρο εἰσ τὴν γῆν, ἣν ἄν σοι δείξω. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. father

  2. epithet of Zeus

  3. ancestor

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