PATRUM, patrum
Sounds Like: PAH-trum
Translations: of fathers, of parents, of ancestors
From the root: PATER
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: PATRUM is the genitive plural form of the Latin noun PATER, meaning 'father' or 'parent'. It is used to indicate possession or origin, similar to 'of fathers' or 'belonging to fathers' in English. For example, it might be used in phrases like 'the customs of our fathers' or 'the land of our ancestors'.
Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Masculine
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, PATER.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- PATER — father, a father, God, a God
- PATERNOSQUE — and paternal, and fatherly, and ancestral, and hereditary
- PATREM — father, a father
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