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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

  • εἶπε δὲ αὐτοῖσ. ἵλεωσ ὑμῖν, μὴ φοβεῖσθε. ὁ Θεὸσ ὑμῶν καὶ ὁ Θεὸσ τῶν πατέρων ὑμῶν ἔδωκεν ὑμῖν θησαυροὺσ ἐν τοῖσ μαρσίπποισ ὑμῶν, καὶ τὸ ἀργύριον ὑμῶν εὐδοκιμοῦν ἀπέχω. καὶ ἐξήγαγε πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ τὸν Συμεὼν (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 43:22)
  • ὁ δὲ λέγει αὐτῷ. ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ Θεὸσ τῶν πατέρων σου. μὴ φοβοῦ καταβῆναι εἰσ Αἴγυπτον. εἰσ γὰρ ἔθνοσ μέγα ποιήσω σε ἐκεῖ, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 46:3)
  • καὶ εἶπεν Ἰακὼβ τῷ Φαραώ. αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν ἐτῶν τῆσ ζωῆσ μου, ἃσ παροικῶ, ἑκατὸν τριάκοντα ἔτη. μικραὶ καὶ πονηραὶ γεγόνασιν αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν ἐτῶν τῆσ ζωῆσ μου, οὐκ ἀφίκοντο εἰσ τὰσ ἡμέρασ τῶν ἐτῶν τῆσ ζωῆσ τῶν πατέρων μου, ἃσ ἡμέρασ παρῴκησαν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 47:9)
  • ἀλλὰ κοιμηθήσομαι μετὰ τῶν πατέρων μου, καὶ ἀρεῖσ με ἐξ Αἰγύπτου καὶ θάψεισ με ἐν τῷ τάφῳ αὐτῶν. ὁ δὲ εἶπεν. ἐγὼ ποιήσω κατὰ τὸ ρῆμά σου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 47:30)
  • ὁ ἄγγελοσ ὁ ρυόμενόσ με ἐκ πάντων τῶν κακῶν εὐλογήσαι τὰ παιδία ταῦτα, καὶ ἐπικληθήσεται ἐν αὐτοῖσ τὸ ὄνομά μου καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τῶν πατέρων μου Ἁβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαάκ, καὶ πληθυνθείησαν εἰσ πλῆθοσ πολὺ ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 48:16)

Synonyms

  1. father

  2. epithet of Zeus

  3. ancestor

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