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πατρωνύμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πατρωνύμιος πατρωνύμιον

Structure: πατρωνυμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)/noma

Sense

  1. named after his father

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἄγε, Πέρσαι, τόδ’ ἐνεζόμενοι στέγοσ ἀρχαῖον, φροντίδα κεδνὴν καὶ βαθύβουλον θώμεθα, χρεία δὲ προσήκει, πῶσ ἄρα πράσσει Ξέρξησ βασιλεὺσ Δαρειογενήσ, τὸ πατρωνύμιον γένοσ ἡμέτερον· (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, anapests1)

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

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