Lexical Definition

‎πατρῷος‎ patrōios (pat-ro'-os) ancestral ^G:A
from ‎πατήρ‎

of fathers.

• paternal, i.e. hereditary

Abbott-Smith

πατρῷος, -α, -ον (< πατήρ), [in LXX: Pr 27:10 (אָב), II Es 7:5, II-IV Mac12*;]
of one's fathers, received from one's fathers: Ac 22:3 24:14 28:17.†

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

πατρῷος, α, ον,

also ος, ον [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πατρώϊος, η, ον, the only form used in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; the former first in [Refs 6th c.BC+], though both use the longer form, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; Thess. πατρούεος (which see): (πατήρ):— of or from one's father, coming or inherited from him, σκῆπτρον, ἔγχος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ξεῖνος πατρώϊός ἐσσι παλαιός my old hereditary friend, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; γαῖα πατρωΐη one's fatherland, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; δῶμα, ἑστία, κοῖται, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πατρώϊα one's father's goods, patrimony, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; δοῦλοι π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. δόξα hereditary glory, [Refs] of our fathers and grandfathers, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. οἰκία, κλῆρος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ εἰρήνη ἡ π. [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἔχων π. ἡμῶν ὑποθήκην [Refs 1st c.AD+]; π. θεοί tutelary gods of a family or people, as Apollo at Athens, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Zeus among the Dorians, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Zeus was the θεὸς π. of Heracles, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Orestes, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ζεὺς π. was also the god who protects parents' rights, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

__II ={πάτριος}, of or belonging to one's father, μῆλα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἄεθλοι imposed by him, [Refs]; but π. ἆθλος of him, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. φόνοι, πήματα, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ πατρώϊα the cause of one's father, opposed to τὰ μητρώϊα, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —Grammars distinguished πατρῷος, as expressing patrimonial possession, from πάτριος as expressing hereditary manners, customs, institutions; see [Refs 5th c.AD+]—The distinction holds in Attic dialect Prose; but [Refs 8th c.BC+] only, and in all these senses; so also Trag. [πάτριος should be restored in all passages in Trag. where the 2nd pers. syllable is made short in anapaest meter and Lyric poetry, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but γῆς ἀπὸ πατρωΐης ends a pentameter in [Refs]