Latin noun
pater
pater, patris m.
pater is a Latin noun. In the 4 analysed lines it was read in, it means “father” (2 times), “fathers” (once) and “to father” (once).
In the texts
Each line as the reader shows it: every word in its case colour with its meaning underneath, and arcs from pater to the words it goes with.
“Pater hercle tuus,” ille inquit, “male dixit mihi.”
“By Hercules, your father,” that man said, “spoke ill to me.”
Pater: subject of dixit.
multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum, Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.
and having suffered much also in war, until he founded a city, and brought his gods to Latium, whence came the Latin race, and the Alban fathers, and the walls of high Rome.
patres: joined with genus.
“Pater meus,” inquit, “Hamilcar puerulo me, utpote non amplius novem annos nato, in Hispaniam imperator proficiscens Karthagine Iovi optimo maximo hostias immolavit.
"My father," he said, "Hamilcar, when I was a mere boy, being no more than nine years old, upon setting out for Spain as commander, sacrificed victims at Carthage to Jupiter Optimus Maximus."
Pater: subject of Hamilcar.
Id ego iusiurandum patri datum usque ad hanc aetatem ita conservavi, ut nemini…
I have so preserved that oath given to my father up to this age, that it ought to be doubtful to no one that I will be of the same mind for the remaining time.”
patri: indirect object of datum, to or for whom it is done.
Forms
Every form of the word in these texts, with what it is.
| Form | Grammar | Read |
|---|---|---|
| pater | Nominative · Singular · Masculine | 2 |
| patres | Nominative · Plural · Masculine | 1 |
| patri | Dative · Singular · Masculine | 1 |
Words it goes with
Joined to pater by an arc in these lines, most often first.
Grammar
- About the nominativeThe Latin nominative names the subject of a verb, and whatever renames the subject after sum. How to spot it, with real lines from Genesis and Eutropius.
- About the dativeThe Latin dative marks the person something is given to, said to or done for. Its uses and endings, with real lines from Horace, Seneca and Catullus.