πατρῷα (patroa)

πατρῷα is an Ancient Greek form of πατρῷος, meaning “of one's father, ancestral”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 102 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.55: … ἔτη ἑβδομήκοντα. Δοκεῖ δὲ καὶ κάλλιστα νομοθετῆσαι· ἐάν τις μὴ τρέφῃ τοὺς γονέας, ἄτιμος ἔστω· ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ τὰ πατρῷα κατεδηδοκὼς ὁμοίως. καὶ ὁ ἀργὸς ὑπεύθυνος ἔστω παντὶ τῷ βουλομένῳ γράφεσθαι. Λυσίας δʼ ἐν τῷ κατὰ Νικίου Δράκ …

Euripides, Alcestis 169: ἐν γῇ πατρῴᾳ τερπνὸν ἐκπλῆσαι βίον.

Euripides, Hecuba 22: ψυχή, πατρῴα θʼ ἑστία κατεσκάφη,

All forms of πατρῷος (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.