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patres

patres is a Latin form of pater, meaning “father”. It is the vocative plural masculine noun or accusative plural masculine noun or nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 1,033 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.44: Quibus rebus accidit, ut pauci milites patresque familiae, qui aut gratia aut misericordia valerent aut naves adnare possent, recepti in Siciliam incolumes …

Ovid, Fasti 5.153: templa Patres illic oculos exosa viriles

All forms of pater (declension table)

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