# πατέω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* βᾰτέω (bătéō) — Doric
* μάτημῐ (mátēmĭ) — Aeolic

### Etymology

Related to πάτος (pátos, “path”); see there for more.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.té.ɔː/ → /paˈte.o/ → /paˈte.o/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pa.té.ɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /paˈte.o/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /paˈte.o/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /paˈte.o/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /paˈte.o/

### Verb

πᾰτέω • (pătéō)
* to walk, to tread
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1298
** 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 10:19
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 1.115
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.85
** 234 CE – 305 CE, Porphyry, On Abstinence 1.14
* to tread on
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 732
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 957
** 320 CE – 403 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 5.12.1
** 630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Collected Works 54
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Nehemiah 13.15
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Apoc. 19.15
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 37
* to walk in, dwell in, frequent
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1193
** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 45.6
** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 471
** 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Aetia 2079.25
** 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Del. 248
** 260 CE – 340 CE, Eusebius, Preparations for the Gospel 10.3
** Oppian, Cynegetica 2.218
** 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 2.345
** 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, Po.Herc. 1676.10
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 273a
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1060
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 18.20
* to trample
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1357
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 644
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 110
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 166
** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 377
** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, 16 562
** New Testament, Revelation 11:2
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 248a
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1146
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 745
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 683

#### Derived terms

* ἀνᾰπᾰτέω (anăpătéō)
* ἀντῐπᾰτέω (antĭpătéō)
* ἀποπᾰτέω (apopătéō)
* δῐᾰπᾰτέω (dĭăpătéō)
* ἐκπᾰτέω (ekpătéō)
* ἐμπᾰτέω (empătéō)
* κᾰτᾰπᾰτέω (kătăpătéō)
* λακπᾰτέω (lakpătéō)
* ληνοπᾰτέω (lēnopătéō)
* περιπᾰτέω (peripătéō)
* πηλοπᾰτέω (pēlopătéō)
* προπᾰτέω (propătéō)
* σῠμπᾰτέω (sŭmpătéō)

#### Related terms

* ἀπάτητος (apátētos)
* πάτημᾰ (pátēmă)
* πάτησῐς (pátēsĭs)
* πατησμός (patēsmós)
* πατητήρῐον (patētḗrĭon)
* πατητής (patētḗs)
* πατητός (patētós)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πατέω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1157

### Further reading

* “πατέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “πατέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “πατέω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* πατέω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* πατέω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “πατέω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G3961 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible