patres conscripti

Latin

Alternative forms

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 (genitive patrum cōnscrīptōrum); variously declined, third declension, second declension

  1. (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.

plural
nominative patrēs cōnscrīptī
genitive patrum cōnscrīptōrum
dative patribus cōnscrīptīs
accusative patrēs cōnscrīptōs
ablative patribus cōnscrīptīs
vocative patrēs cōnscrīptī

Descendants

  • → English: conscript father (calque)

Further reading

“patres conscripti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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