πατριάρχης

Ancient Greek

πᾰτρῐᾱ́ (pătrĭā́) +‎ -ᾰ́ρχης (-ắrkhēs)

πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχης • (pătrĭắrkhēs) m (genitive πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχου); first declension

(Judaism and Christianity) a patriarch (the father or chief of a race)
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Chronicles 27.22
- Act.Ap. 2.29
- Act.Ap. 7.8
- Ep.Hebr. 7.4
(Christianity, as Πατριάρχης in titular use) a patriarch (borne as a title by the bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria)
- 482 CE – 565 CE, Justinian, New Constitutions 3.2

First declension of ὁ πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχης; τοῦ πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχης ho pătrĭắrkhēs	τὼ πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχᾱ tṑ pătrĭắrkhā	οἱ πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχαι hoi pătrĭắrkhai
Genitive	τοῦ πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχου toû pătrĭắrkhou	τοῖν πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχαιν toîn pătrĭắrkhain	τῶν πᾰτρῐᾰρχῶν tôn pătrĭărkhôn
Dative	τῷ πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχῃ tōî pătrĭắrkhēi	τοῖν πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχαιν toîn pătrĭắrkhain	τοῖς πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχαις toîs pătrĭắrkhais
Accusative	τὸν πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχην tòn pătrĭắrkhēn	τὼ πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχᾱ tṑ pătrĭắrkhā	τοὺς πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχᾱς toùs pătrĭắrkhās
Vocative	πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχᾰ pătrĭắrkhă	πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχᾱ pătrĭắrkhā	πᾰτρῐᾰ́ρχαι pătrĭắrkhai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“πατριάρχης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

πατριάρχης • (patriárchis) m (plural πατριάρχες)