patricius

From patr- (literally “father”) +‎ -icius (adjective-forming suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈtri.ki.us/, [päˈt̪rɪkiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈtri.t͡ʃi.us/, [päˈt̪riːt͡ʃius]

patricius (feminine patricia, neuter patricium); first/second-declension adjective

1. patrician, noble

First/second-declension adjective.

• patritius

• Patricius (given name)

patricius m (genitive patriciī or patricī); second declension

1. patrician

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 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