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πατρονόμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πατρονόμος πατρονόμον

Structure: πατρονομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ne/mw

Sense

  1. ruling as a father.

Examples

  • ἅτε δὲ ὄντι αὐτῷ Παυσανίου θερμοτέρῳ καὶ οὐ φιλοψύχῳ ταχὺ τὰ πάντα ὑπὸ φρονήματοσ καὶ τόλμησ κατείργαστο, καὶ βασιλέα τε οἰκίασ τῆσ ἑτέρασ Εὐρυδαμίδαν παῖδα ἔτι ἀνελὼν φαρμάκῳ διὰ τῶν ἐφορευόντων ἐσ Ἐπικλείδαν τὸν ἀδελφὸν μετέστησε τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ τὸ κράτοσ τῆσ γερουσίασ καταλύσασ πατρονόμουσ τῷ λόγῳ κατέστησεν ἀντ’ αὐτῶν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 9 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. ruling as a father

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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