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πατροπάτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πατροπάτωρ

Structure: πατροπατωρ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a father's father

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

  • τόν, Εὐρυσθῆοσ ἐπεὶ κεφαλὰν ἔπραθε φασγάνου ἀκμᾷ, κρύψαν ἔνερθ’ ὑπὸ γᾶν διφρηλάτα Ἀμφιτρύωνοσ σάματι, πατροπάτωρ ἔνθα οἱ Σπαρτῶν ξένοσ κεῖτο, λευκίπποισι Καδμείων μετοικήσαισ ἀγυιαῖσ. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 9 24:1)
  • ἔντεα γάρ οἱ πατροπάτωρ Ἀλεὸσ μυχάτῃ ἐνέκρυψε καλιῇ, αἴ κέν πωσ ἔτι καὶ τὸν ἐρητύσειε νέεσθαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 4:7)
  • Ἀστέριοσ δὲ καὶ Ἀμφίων Ὑπερασίου υἱε͂σ Πελλήνησ ἀφίκανον Ἀχαιίδοσ, ἥν ποτε Πέλλησ πατροπάτωρ ἐπόλισσεν ἐπ’ ὀφρύσιν Αἰγιαλοῖο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 4:13)

Synonyms

  1. a father's father

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

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