Perseus analyses of πατρί:

πατήρ (pitṛṣu): masc dat sg
πατρίς (of oneʼs fathers): fem voc sg

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πᾰτήρ

πατήρ, ὁ, gen. and dat. πατέρος, πατέρι in Ep. and Lyr., Att. πατρός, πατρί (which is also the commoner form in Hom., Hes., and Pi.) ; acc. always πατέρα ; voc. πάτερ : pl. πατέρες, πατέρας, πατέρων (πατρῶν only Od. 4.687, 8.245) ; dat. πατράσι [ᾰ] (cf. Skt. loc. pl.

A. pitṛṣu, no dat. pl. occurs in Hom. or Hes.), late Ep. πατέρεσσι Q.S. 10.40 :— father, Il. 1.98, etc. ; πατρὸς πατήρ grandfather, 14.118, Od. 19.180, X. HG 6.3.4, etc. ; τοῦδε κεκλῆσθαι πατρός S. Fr. 86 ; μητρὸς καλεῖσθαι παῖδα τοῦ π. παρόν ib.564 ; τὰ πρὸς πατρός by the fatherʼs side, Hdt. 7.99, cf. SIG 1015.7 (Halic.), etc. ; esp. of God, the father of the Israelites, LXXDe. 32.6, al. ; father of men, Ev.Matt. 6.8, al. ; father of Jesus Christ, ib.7.21 ,al.

III. respectful mode of addressing persons older than oneself, ξεὶνε πάτερ Od. 7.28,48,8.145, cf. POxy. 1296.15 (iii A. D.), etc. ; in addressing an elder brother, UPZ 65.3 (ii B.C.).

IV. metaph., father, author, ἀοιδᾶν π . . . εὐαίνητος Ὀρφεύς Pi. P. 4.176 ; χρόνος ὁ πάντων π. Id. O. 2.17, cf. Pl. Ti. 41a ; τοῦ λόγου π. Id. Smp. 177d, cf. Phdr. 257b, etc. ; ὁ π. τῶν φώτων, i.e. God, the father of the stars, Ep.Jac. 1.17 ; οἱ π. τῶν ἀτόμων the authors of the atomic theory, Gal. 1.246 ; of capital, τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκγόνους τόκους Pl. R. 555e.

V. title of a grade in the mysteries of Mithras, IG 14.1272, etc.

VI. π. πατρίδος, = Lat. pater patriae, Plu. Cic. 23, BGU 1074.1 (i A. D.), IG 7.2713.33 (Acraeph., i A. D.), etc. ; similarly, π. τῆς πόλεως ib.5(1).1417.11 (Methone).

VII. in pl.,

1. forefathers, Il. 6.209, etc. ; ἐξέτι πατρῶν from our fathers’ time, Od. 8.245 ; ἐκ πατέρων Pi. P. 8.45.

2. parents, D.S. 21.17, Alciphr. 3.40, Epigr.Gr. 227 (Teos).

3. parentnation, opp. colonists, Hdt. 7.51, 8.22, Plu. Them. 9. (Cf. Skt.pitár-, Lat. pater, etc.)

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πατρίς

πατρίς, ίδος, poet. fem. of πάτριος,

A. of oneʼs fathers, πατρὶς αἶα, ἄρουρα, oneʼs fatherland, country, Od. 10.236, 20.193; π. γαῖα 24.322, Hes. Sc. 1, 12, A. Th. 585; γῆ π. S. OT 641, Ar. Th. 859 (paratrag.) ; π. πόλις the city of oneʼs sires, Pi. O. 10(11).36.

II. Subst., = πάτρα I, Il. 5.213, Od. 4.586, 9.34, Hdt. 3.140, Th. 6.69, etc.; κοινὴ π., i. e. the nether world, Plu. 2.113c : prov., π. γάρ ἐστι πᾶσʼ ἵνʼ ἂν πράττῃ τις εὖ, ubi bene, ibi patria, Ar. Pl. 1151; simply, native town or village, UPZ 9.5 (ii B. C.), Ev.Marc. 6.1, etc. : pl., ἐν ταῖς αὑτῶν π. D. 18.296, cf. 305, Pl. Plt. 308a, Hyp. Epit. 10.