patruelis

From patruus (“father's brother”) +‎ -ēlis.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.truˈeː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.t̪ruˈɛː.lis]

patruēlis m or f (genitive patruēlis); third declension

1. A first cousin on the father's side; the child of one's father's brother (one type of parallel cousin).

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

patruēlis (neuter patruēle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. of, belonging to or descending from one's father's brother
2. (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?

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• mātruēlis

• “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.