πατρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πᾰτήρ (patḗr, “father”) +‎ -ίς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.trís/ → /paˈtris/ → /paˈtris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.trís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paˈtris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paˈtris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paˈtris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈtris/

Noun

πᾰτρῐ́ς • (patrís) f (genitive πᾰτρῐ́δος); third declension

1. The place of one's father/ancestors: fatherland, hometown, native city, native country

   Synonym: πάτρᾱ (pátrā)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πᾰτρῐ́ς; τῆς πᾰτρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πᾰτρῐ́ς hē patrís	τὼ πᾰτρῐ́δε tṑ patríde	αἱ πᾰτρῐ́δες hai patrídes
Genitive	τῆς πᾰτρῐ́δος tês patrídos	τοῖν πᾰτρῐ́δοιν toîn patrídoin	τῶν πᾰτρῐ́δων tôn patrídōn
Dative	τῇ πᾰτρῐ́δῐ têi patrídi	τοῖν πᾰτρῐ́δοιν toîn patrídoin	ταῖς πᾰτρῐ́σῐ / πᾰτρῐ́σῐν taîs patrísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πᾰτρῐ́δᾰ tḕn patrída	τὼ πᾰτρῐ́δε tṑ patríde	τᾱ̀ς πᾰτρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s patrídas
Vocative	πᾰτρῐ́ς patrís	πᾰτρῐ́δε patríde	πᾰτρῐ́δες patrídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Greek: πατρίδα (patrída)
• Mariupol Greek: патри́дъа (patríða)

Further reading

• “πατρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πατρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πατρίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πατρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• πατρίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πατρίς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3968 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • birth-place idem, page 79.
  • country idem, page 178.
  • cradle idem, page 181.
  • fatherland idem, page 310.
  • land idem, page 475.
  • native land idem, page 551.
• “πατρίς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011