πατέρες (pateres)

πατέρες is an Ancient Greek form of πατήρ, meaning “father”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 265 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.71.7: πρὸς τάδε βουλεύεσθε εὖ καὶ τὴν Πελοπόννησον πειρᾶσθε μὴ ἐλάσσω ἐξηγεῖσθαι ἢ οἱ πατέρες ὑμῖν παρέδοσαν.’

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 12.100: … εται καὶ ἡ ἐπιθυμία αὐτοῦ· ὁ δὲ ποιῶν τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ μένει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Ταῦτα οὖν οἱ θεῖοι καὶ θεοφόροι Πατέρες ἡμῶν κατανοήσαντες, καὶ τοῦ Ἀποστόλου ἀκούσαντες, ὅτι διὰ πολλῶν θλίψεων δεῖ ἡμᾶς εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν …

All forms of πατήρ (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.