πᾰτήρ, ὁ,
genitive and dative πατέρος, πατέρι in Epic dialect and Lyric poetry, Attic dialect πατρός, πατρί (which is also the commoner form in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, and 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; accusative always πατέρ; vocative πάτερ: plural πατέρες, πατέρας, πατέρων (πατρῶν only [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.687, 8.245) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; dative πατράσι [ᾰ] (cf. Sanskrit locative plural pitṛ[snull]u, no dative plural occurs in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus or 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus)] Refs 8th c.BC+], late Epic dialect πατέρεσσι [[ 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 10.40 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]:— father, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.98, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πατρὸς πατήρ grandfather,[[ 14.118, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.180, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.3.4, etc.; τοῦδε κεκλῆσθαι πατρός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 86; μητρὸς καλεῖσθαι παῖδα τοῦ π. παρόν [prev. work] 564 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ πρὸς πατρός by the father's side, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.99, compare “SIG” 1015.7 (Halic.)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; especially of God, the father of the Israelites, [[ LXX.Deu.32.6, +others ] LXX]; father of men, [[ NT.Matt.6.8, +others ] NT]; father of Jesus Christ, [[[prev. work] 7.21, +others ] Refs]
__II especially as epithet of Zeus, πατὴρ Ζεύς, π. Κρονίδης, π. ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.235, 21.508, 1.544, +others ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ζεὺς π. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 512, etc.; Ζεῦ πάτερ καὶ θεοί 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 225 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. Οὐρανιδᾶν Ζ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.194; ὁ τῶν ἁπάντων Ζεὺς π. Ὀλύμπιος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 275, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]