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Expert: Maria - 3/23/2007

Question
Can you please tell me what the ancient greek word for "Father" (of sons) is please?
Thanks so much in advance for your help, Kind regards, Louise

Answer
Hello Louise,

The ancient Greek word for ‘father’ is “Patér” which is a nominative singular of a noun that belongs to the 3rd.declension.

In ancient Greek in fact there are three declensions and five cases.

Please note that “Patér” is written in Latin alphabet (Latin transliteration), since the system does not allow the use of the Greek characters.

Anyway, here are the Greek letters that compose ‘Patér’:

“Pi-alpha-tau-eta with the acute accent-rho”.

See the Greek alphabet at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html
http://www.dur.ac.uk/stat.web/greek.htm

Best regards,
Maria

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Comment	Thank you so much for your clear, consise help, the links were also very helpful! Many many thanks coming to you from Wales, diolch yn fawr (thank you very much)