pati
1. pa/ti m. ( cf. √ 1. pat ; when uncompounded and meaning ‘husband’ instr. pa/tyA ; dat. pa/tye ; gen. abl. pa/tyur ; loc. pa/tyO ; but when meaning ‘lord, master’, and ifc. regularly inflected with exceptions; cf. Pāṇ. i, 4, 8 ; 9 ) a master, owner, possessor, lord, ruler, sovereign, RV. &c. &c.