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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

  • ἡ δὲ φιλάκρητοσ καὶ ἀείλαλοσ οὐκ ἐπὶ τέκνοισ μύρεται, οὐ τεκέων ἀκτεάνῳ πατέρι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3532)
  • πρῶτοσ Νεστορίδησ Πεισίστρατοσ ἐγγύθεν ἐλθὼν ἀμφοτέρων ἕλε χεῖρα καὶ ἵδρυσεν παρὰ δαιτὶ κώεσιν ἐν μαλακοῖσιν ἐπὶ ψαμάθοισ ἁλίῃσιν πάρ τε κασιγνήτῳ Θρασυμήδεϊ καὶ πατέρι ᾧ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 5:5)
  • ἔνθ’ ὅ γε τοὺσ ἐνάριζε, φίλον δ’ ἐξαίνυτο θυμὸν ἀμφοτέρω, πατέρι δὲ γόον καὶ κήδεα λυγρὰ λεῖπ’, ἐπεὶ οὐ ζώοντε μάχησ ἐκνοστήσαντε δέξατο· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 19:6)
  • τὸν νῦν οὐκ ἔτλητε νέκυν περ ἐόντα σαῶσαι ᾗ τ’ ἀλόχῳ ἰδέειν καὶ μητέρι καὶ τέκεϊ ᾧ καὶ πατέρι Πριάμῳ λαοῖσί τε, τοί κέ μιν ὦκα ἐν πυρὶ κήαιεν καὶ ἐπὶ κτέρεα κτερίσαιεν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 3:7)

Synonyms

  1. father

  2. epithet of Zeus

  3. ancestor

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