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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

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

  • σὺ δὲ ἀπελεύσῃ πρὸσ τοὺσ πατέρασ σου ἐν εἰρήνῃ, τραφεὶσ ἐν γήρᾳ καλῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 15:15)
  • καὶ κατέβησαν οἱ πατέρεσ ἡμῶν εἰσ Αἴγυπτον, καὶ παρῳκήσαμεν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἡμέρασ πλείουσ, καὶ ἐκάκωσαν ἡμᾶσ οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι καὶ τοὺσ πατέρασ ἡμῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 20:15)
  • διὰ τὸ ἀγαπῆσαι αὐτὸν τοὺσ πατέρασ σου καὶ ἐξελέξατο τὸ σπέρμα αὐτῶν μετ̓ αὐτοὺσ ὑμᾶσ καὶ ἐξήγαγέ σε αὐτὸσ ἐν τῇ ἰσχύϊ αὐτοῦ τῇ μεγάλῃ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 4:37)
  • πλὴν τοὺσ πατέρασ ὑμῶν προείλετο Κύριοσ ἀγαπᾶν αὐτούσ, καὶ ἐξελέξατο τὸ σπέρμα αὐτῶν μετ̓ αὐτοὺσ ὑμᾶσ παρὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν ταύτην. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 10:15)
  • καὶ εἰσάξει σε ὁ Θεόσ σου ἐκεῖθεν εἰσ τὴν γῆν, ἣν ἐκληρονόμησαν οἱ πατέρεσ σου, καὶ κληρονομήσεισ αὐτήν. καὶ εὖ σε ποιήσει καὶ πλεοναστόν σε ποιήσει ὑπὲρ τοὺσ πατέρασ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 30:5)

Synonyms

  1. father

  2. epithet of Zeus

  3. ancestor

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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