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πατρῷον (patroon)

πατρῷον is an Ancient Greek form of πατρῷος, meaning “of one's father, ancestral”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 99 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.5.88: … παιδὸς αὐτῷ ὄνομα Πασικλέους, ὅτʼ ἐξ ἐφήβων ἐγένετο, ἀγαγεῖν αὐτὸν ἐπʼ οἴκημα παιδίσκης καὶ φάναι τοῦτον αὐτῷ πατρῷον εἶναι τὸν γάμον·

Plutarch, Aratus 38.1: … μενος τότε μὲν ὑπέμεινε, καὶ πρὸς Ὀρχομενὸν ἐξαγαγὼν τοὺς Ἀχαιούς μάχην ἔθετο πρὸς Μεγιστόνουν τὸν Κλεομένους πατρῳόν, ἐν ᾗ κρατήσας τριακοσίους μὲν ἀπέκτεινε, ζῶντα δὲ τὸν Μεγιστόνουν συνέλαβεν.

Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians frag_1.2: … νος· τούτου γὰρ ‹συν›οἰκήσαντος τὴν Ἀττικήν, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης φησί, τοὺς Ἀθηναίους Ἴωνας κληθῆναι, καὶ Ἀπόλλωνα Πατρῷον αὐτοῖς ὀνομασθῆναι.

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.