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patrio

patrio is a Latin form of patrius, meaning “of a father; ancestral”. It is the ablative singular neuter adjective.

Found 159 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.7: … posset auferre? at non requirebat ille Cupido lenonis domum ac meretriciam disciplinam; facile illo sacrario patrio continebatur; Heio se a maioribus relictum esse sciebat in hereditate sacrorum, non quaerebat meretricis here …

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 3.3.8: Patrio more Persarum traditum est orto sole demum procedere. Die iam inlustri signum e tabernaculo regis bucina dabatur: super tabernaculum, unde ab omnibus conspici posset, imago solis crystallo inclusa fulgebat.

All forms of patrius (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.