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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πᾰτήρ (patḗr, “father”) + -ίς (-ís).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.trís/ → /paˈtris/ → /paˈtris/
Noun
πᾰτρῐ́ς • (patrís) f (genitive πᾰτρῐ́δος); third declension
- The place of one's father/ancestors: fatherland, hometown, native city, native country
- Synonym: πάτρᾱ (pátrā)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “πατρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πατρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πατρίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πατρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- πατρίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πατρίς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3968 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “πατρίς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011