πατήρ

• Πατήρ (Patḗr)

From Proto-Hellenic *patḗr (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀳 (pa-te)), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.^[1] Cognates include Old English fæder (English father), Phrygian πατερης (paterēs), Latin pater, Sanskrit पितृ (pitṛ), and Old Armenian հայր (hayr).

πᾰτήρ • (pătḗr) m (genitive πᾰτρός or πᾰτέρος); third declension

1. father

   Synonyms: νόννος (nónnos), φύτωρ (phútōr)

   1. epithet of Zeus
      • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.544:

        Τὴν δ’ ἠμείβετ’ ἔπειτα πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε·

        Tḕn d’ ēmeíbet’ épeita patḕr andrôn te theôn te;

        Then the father of men and gods answered her:

   2. respectful address of an older man
   3. (figurative) author [5th c. BCE]
   4. (in the plural) forefathers, ancestors
2. (Christianity) God the Father; (one of the three Persons of the Trinity) [3rd c. BCE]

• Greek: πατήρ (patír), πατέρας (patéras)
• Yevanic: פַטִיר (patir)

• “πᾰτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πατήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πατήρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πατήρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πατήρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3962 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.
  • father idem, page 309.
  • sire idem, page 779.
• 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
• πατήρ, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek πᾰτήρ (pătḗr). Doublet of πατέρας (patéras).

• IPA^(key): [paˈtir]
• Hyphenation: πα‧τήρ

πατήρ • (patír) m

1. (religion) God the Father
2. (literary) father (form of address for monk or priest)
3. Katharevousa form of πατέρας (patéras), father