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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.

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative πατρονόμος πατρόνομον
Genitive πατρονόμου πατρονόμου
Dative πατρονόμῳ πατρονόμῳ
Accusative πατρονόμον πατρόνομον
Vocative πατρονόμε πατρόνομον
DualN/A/V πατρονόμω πατρονόμω
G/D πατρονόμοιν πατρονόμοιν
PluralNominative πατρονόμοι πατρόνομα
Genitive πατρονόμων πατρονόμων
Dative πατρονόμοις πατρονόμοις
Accusative πατρονόμους πατρόνομα
Vocative πατρονόμοι πατρόνομα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective πατρονόμος πατρονόμου πατρονομώτερος πατρονομωτέρου πατρονομώτατος πατρονομωτάτου
Adverb πατρονόμως πατρονομώτερον πατρονομώτατα

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

  • ἀλλ’ ὅτι τρόπον τινὰ πάντεσ οἱ τηλικοῦτοι τάξιν ἀρχόντων ἤ τινων πατρονόμων ἢ παιδαγωγῶν ἔχοντεσ; (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 24 6:2)
  • 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

Similar forms

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

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