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εὐπατρίδης (eupatrides)

εὐπατρίδης means “of good or noble sire, of noble family”.

Ancient Greek word, found 7 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 18.53: ὡς ἐξ εὐπατριδᾶν εἰς εὐπατρίδας πάλιν ἔνθῃ.

Euripides, Hippolytus 152: ἀρχαγόν, τὸν εὐπατρίδαν,

Isocrates, Concerning the Team of Horses 25: ὁ γὰρ πατὴρ πρὸς μὲν ἀνδρῶν ἦν Εὐπατριδῶν, ὧν τὴν εὐγένειαν ἐξ αὐτῆς τῆς ἐπωνυμίας ῥᾴδιον γνῶναι, πρὸς γυναικῶν δʼ Ἀλκμεωνιδῶν, οἳ τοῦ μὲν πλούτου μέγι …

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.