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Latin
Etymology
Originally most likely an ellipsis of patrēs et cōnscrīptī, seemingly distinct groups of senators in the early Republic. The 7th-century writer Isidore of Seville interprets cōnscrīptī as adjectival, but this reading is now usually rejected; the singular pater cōnscrīptus is, however, attested in Cicero (apparently as a joke).
Noun
patrēs cōnscrīptī m pl (variously declined, genitive patrum cōnscrīptōrum); third declension, second declension
- (politics) An honorific term of address for the Roman Senate, literally conscript fathers or fathers and conscripts.
55 BCE,
Cicero,
In Pisonem 24:
- At audistis, patres conscripti, philosophi vocem: negavit se triumphi cupidum umquam fuisse.
- But Conscript Fathers, you heard the voice of the philosopher: he denied that he has ever had the desire for a triumph.
Declension
Third-declension noun with a second-declension noun, plural only.
Descendants