πρατήρ

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *prātḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂tḗr, from *perh₂- (“sell”) + *-tḗr. Compare πέρνημῐ (pérnēmĭ). Outside of Hellenic, compare Latin pars, whence English party.

πρᾱτήρ • (prātḗr) m (genitive πρᾱτῆρος); third declension

seller
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 915d
- 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 10.24
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 37.5
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 37.16
- Inscriptiones Graecae 1.872.15
(πρᾱτήρ λίθος) the stone on which slaves were sold
- ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 3.78

Third declension of ὁ πρᾱτήρ; τοῦ πρᾱτῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πρᾱτήρ ho prātḗr	τὼ πρᾱτῆρε tṑ prātêre	οἱ πρᾱτῆρες hoi prātêres
Genitive	τοῦ πρᾱτῆρος toû prātêros	τοῖν πρᾱτήροιν toîn prātḗroin	τῶν πρᾱτήρων tôn prātḗrōn
Dative	τῷ πρᾱτῆρῐ tōî prātêrĭ	τοῖν πρᾱτήροιν toîn prātḗroin	τοῖς πρᾱτῆρσῐ / πρᾱτῆρσῐν toîs prātêrsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν πρᾱτῆρᾰ tòn prātêră	τὼ πρᾱτῆρε tṑ prātêre	τοὺς πρᾱτῆρᾰς toùs prātêrăs
Vocative	πρᾱτήρ prātḗr	πρᾱτῆρε prātêre	πρᾱτῆρες prātêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“πρατήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πρατήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette