ΠΑΤΡΙΣ, πατρις
PATRIS, patris
Sounds Like: PAH-trees
Translations: fatherland, a fatherland, homeland, a homeland, native country, a native country
From the root: ΠΑΤΡΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to one's native country or homeland, the land of one's fathers. It is used to describe the place where one was born or where one's ancestors originated. It can be used in sentences like 'He returned to his fatherland' or 'They loved their homeland'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3968 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:74
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 4:67
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 5:14
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 5:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΤΡΙΣ.
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.
- ΠΑΤΡΙΔΑ — homeland, a homeland, fatherland, a fatherland, native country, a native country
- ΠΑΤΡΙΔΑΣ — homelands, fatherlands, countries
- ΠΑΤΡΙΔΕΣ — homelands, native lands, countries
- ΠΑΤΡΙΔΙ — (to) homeland, (to) native land, (to) country, (to) a homeland, (to) a native land, (to) a country
- ΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣ — (of) fatherland, (of) homeland, (of) native country, (of) ancestral land
- ΠΑΤΡΙΔΩΝ — of homelands, of fatherlands, of native lands
- ΠΑΤΡΙΣΙ — country, homeland, native land, fatherland
- ΠΑΤΡΙΣΙΝ — (to) fatherland, (to) homeland, (to) native country, (to) native city
- ΤΗΠΑΤΡΙΔΙ — (to) the fatherland, (to) the homeland, (to) the native country
- ΤΗΣΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣ — of the fatherland, of the homeland, of the native country
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