(adjective) : pātrŭēlis, e (abl. patruele, Nep. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 113 P.), patruus
* Of or descended from a father's brother (cf. consobrinus, descended from a mother's sister).
* Lit.: patrueles marium fratrum filii; consobrini ex duabus editi sororibus,Non. 557, 12: item fratres patrueles, sorores patrueles, id est qui quaeve ex duobus fratribus progenerantur,Dig. 38, 10, 1, § 6; Gai. Inst. 3, 10: frater tuus erat frater patruelis meus,Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 109: L. Cicero frater noster cognatione patruelis, amore germanus,my cousin by blood, my brother in affection,Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 1: frater,id. Planc. 11, 27.
* Subst.: pātrŭēlis, is, comm., a father's brother's son or daughter, a cousin: patruelis suus,his cousin,Suet. Dom. 15: alterum e patruelibus,id. ib. 10: patruelis nulla,Pers. 6, 52; Amm. 15, 8, 1.
* Transf., of or belonging to a father's brother's child or children, of one's cousin or cousins (poet.): patruelia regna,i. e. of Danaus,Ov. H. 14, 61: patruelia dona, i. e. the arms of Achilles (whose father was the brother of Ajax's father), id. M. 13, 41: origo,id. ib. 1, 352.

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