Definition of "patricians" [patricians]

• Plural form of patrician. (noun)

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• "They were? patricians? from the Latin word? pater,? meaning? father.?"
• "The senators are to be chosen by the patricians of each city; that is, the patricians of one city are to elect in their own council a fixed number of senators from their colleagues of their own city, which number is to be to that of the patricians of that city as one to twelve"
• "Sometime during the regal period a group of gentes, called patricians, secured for themselves certain political and religious privileges to the exclusion of other plebeian gentes."