patribus

patribus is a Latin form of pater, meaning “father”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

Found 331 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.13.4: … auxilium ferre non possent, ne ob eam rem aut suae magnopere virtuti tribueret aut ipsos despiceret. Se ita a patribus maioribusque suis didicisse, ut magis virtute contenderent quam dolo aut insidiis niterentur.

Cicero, De Haruspicum Responso In P. Clodium 40: … uid idem haruspices a dis iam immortalibus dicant moneri. monent ne per optimativm discordiam dissensionemqve patribvs principibvsqve caedes pericvlaqve creentvr avxilioqve divini nvminis deficiantvr, †qva re ad vnvm imperivm pe …

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 3.M4.6: Patribus indecores curules.

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.