ad patres

[ ahd pah-tres; English ad pey-treez ]

adjective

, Latin.

1. dead.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ad patres¹

Literally, “(having gone) to the fathers”

Example Sentences

Ad Patres in Concilio Lateranensi v. sedentes hoc habebat, die xvii.

From Project Gutenberg

Ad Patres si quando licebit accedere, confectum est praelium; tam sunt nostri, quam Gregorius ipse decimus tertius, filiorum Ecclesiae Pater amantissimus.

From Project Gutenberg

However the chant went on, and Father Massias, hearing nothing and seeing nothing, absorbed as he was in his glowing gratitude to God, shouted the final verse in a thundering voice: "Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros, Abraham, et semini ejus in saecula."

From Project Gutenberg

However the chant went on, and Father Massias, hearing nothing and seeing nothing, absorbed as he was in his glowing gratitude to God, shouted the final verse in a thundering voice: "Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros, Abraham, et semini ejus in saecula."

From Project Gutenberg

However the chant went on, and Father Massias, hearing nothing and seeing nothing, absorbed as he was in his glowing gratitude to God, shouted the final verse in a thundering voice: "/Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros, Abraham, et semini ejus in saecula/."

From Project Gutenberg