Ancient Greek

Noun

πᾰτήρ • ‎(patḗr) m ‎(genitive πᾰτρός or πᾰτέρος); third declension

1. father
   1. epithet of Zeus
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.544

        Τὴν δ' ἠμείβετ' ἔπειτα πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε·

        Then the father of men and gods answered her:

   2. respectful address of an older man
   3. (figuratively) author
   4. (in the plural) forefathers, ancestors

Declension

Derived terms

• Κλεοπᾶς ‎(Kleopâs)
• Κλεοπάτρα ‎(Kleopátra)
• Κλεόπατρος ‎(Kleópatros)
• Σωσῐ́πᾰτρος ‎(Sōsípatros)

Descendants

• Greek: πατήρ ‎(patír), πατέρας ‎(patéras)

References

• πᾰτήρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πατήρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πατήρ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πατήρ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πατήρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3962”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • father idem, page 309.
  • sire idem, page 779.
• BDAG

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paˈtir]
• Hyphenation: πα‧τήρ

Noun

πατήρ • ‎(patír) m

1. (religion) God the Father
2. (literary) father (form of address for monk or priest)
3. Katharevousa form of πατέρας ‎(patéras), father