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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

  • Καὶ τῷ Σὴμ ἐγεννήθη καὶ αὐτῷ, πατρὶ πάντων τῶν υἱῶν Ἕβερ, ἀδελφῷ Ἰάφεθ τοῦ μείζονοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 10:21)
  • καὶ ἐπηρώτησεν αὐτὴν καὶ εἶπε. θυγάτηρ τίνοσ εἶ̣ ἀνάγγειλόν μοι, εἰ ἔστι παρὰ τῷ πατρί σου τόποσ ἡμῖν τοῦ καταλῦσαι. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 24:23)
  • καὶ παροίκει ἐν τῇ γῇ ταύτῃ, καὶ ἔσομαι μετὰ σοῦ καὶ εὐλογήσω σε. σοὶ γὰρ καὶ τῷ σπέρματί σου δώσω πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ταύτην καὶ στήσω τὸν ὅρκον μου, ὃν ὤμοσα τῷ Ἁβραὰμ τῷ πατρί σου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 26:3)
  • Ρεβέκκα δὲ ἤκουσε λαλοῦντοσ Ἰσαὰκ πρὸσ Ἡσαῦ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ. ἐπορεύθη δὲ Ἡσαῦ εἰσ τὸ πεδίον θηρεῦσαι θήραν τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 27:5)
  • καὶ πορευθεὶσ εἰσ τὰ πρόβατα λαβέ μοι ἐκεῖθεν δύο ἐρίφουσ ἁπαλοὺσ καὶ καλούσ, καὶ ποιήσω αὐτοὺσ ἐδέσματα τῷ πατρί σου, ὡσ φιλεῖ, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 27:9)

Synonyms

  1. father

  2. epithet of Zeus

  3. ancestor

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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