patruelis
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From patruus (“father's brother”) + -ēlis.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pa.truˈeː.lis/, [pät̪ruˈeːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pa.truˈe.lis/, [pät̪ruˈɛːlis]
Noun edit
patruēlis m or f (genitive patruēlis); third declension
- A first cousin on the father's side; the child of one's father's brother (one type of parallel cousin).
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | patruēlis | patruēlēs |
| Genitive | patruēlis | patruēlium |
| Dative | patruēlī | patruēlibus |
| Accusative | patruēlem | patruēlēs patruēlīs |
| Ablative | patruēle | patruēlibus |
| Vocative | patruēlis | patruēlēs |
Adjective edit
patruēlis (neuter patruēle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- of, belonging to or descending from one's father's brother
- (rare) of, belonging to or descending from one's father's sister
- 56 BCE, Cicero, Pro Caelio 24.60:
- quonam modo ille furenti fratri suo [some manuscripts: patrueli] consularis restitisset, qui consul eum incipientem furere atque tonantem sua se manu interfecturum audiente senatu dixerit?
- How would that consular [i.e. Q. Metellus Celer] have resisted the madness of his cousin [brother from his father’s sister; i.e. P. Clodius Pulcher[1]]—he, who when he was consul and [his cousin] was beginning his ravings and thundering forth, said before the listening Senate that he would slay him with his own hand?
- quonam modo ille furenti fratri suo [some manuscripts: patrueli] consularis restitisset, qui consul eum incipientem furere atque tonantem sua se manu interfecturum audiente senatu dixerit?
Declension edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | patruēlis | patruēle | patruēlēs | patruēlia | |
| Genitive | patruēlis | patruēlium | |||
| Dative | patruēlī | patruēlibus | |||
| Accusative | patruēlem | patruēle | patruēlēs patruēlīs |
patruēlia | |
| Ablative | patruēlī | patruēlibus | |||
| Vocative | patruēlis | patruēle | patruēlēs | patruēlia | |
See also edit
References edit
- “patruelis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “patruelis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- patruelis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Gelzer, Matthias (1968) Caesar: Politician and Statesman, →ISBN, page 77, note 2: “Clodius is described as Celer’s cousin (frater) because Clodius’ father […] was married to Metella, the sister of Celer’s father”