patricius
Latin
Etymology
From patrēs cōnscrīptī (“Roman senators”, literally “enlisted fathers”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /paˈtri.ki.us/, [päˈt̪rɪkiʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈtri.t͡ʃi.us/, [päˈt̪riːt͡ʃius]
Adjective
patricius (feminine patricia, neuter patricium); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | patricius | patricia | patricium | patriciī | patriciae | patricia | |
| Genitive | patriciī | patriciae | patriciī | patriciōrum | patriciārum | patriciōrum | |
| Dative | patriciō | patriciō | patriciīs | ||||
| Accusative | patricium | patriciam | patricium | patriciōs | patriciās | patricia | |
| Ablative | patriciō | patriciā | patriciō | patriciīs | |||
| Vocative | patricie | patricia | patricium | patriciī | patriciae | patricia | |
Alternative forms
Noun
patricius m (genitive patriciī or patricī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | patricius | patriciī |
| Genitive | patriciī patricī1 |
patriciōrum |
| Dative | patriciō | patriciīs |
| Accusative | patricium | patriciōs |
| Ablative | patriciō | patriciīs |
| Vocative | patricie | patriciī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- → Dutch: patriciër
- → French: patrice
- → German: Patrizier
- → Hungarian: patrícius
- → Italian: patrizio
- → Portuguese: patrício
- → Russian: патриций (patricij)
- → Spanish: patricio
References
- “patricius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “patricius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- patricius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- patricius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- patrician arrogance; pride of caste: spiritus patricii (Liv. 4. 42)
- patrician arrogance; pride of caste: spiritus patricii (Liv. 4. 42)
- “patricius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray