{"id":22038,"date":"2022-03-17T13:42:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22038"},"modified":"2022-03-17T13:42:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:42:23","slug":"enlisted-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22038","title":{"rendered":"Enlisted Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As today is St Patrick&#8217;s Day, I thought I&#8217;d look into the origins of the name <strong>Patrick<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/stpatricksday.jpg\" alt=\"Happy St Patrick's Day \/ L\u00e1 \u1e1f\u00e9ile P\u00e1draig sona \u1e0buit! \/ Dydd Gwyl Padrig Hapus\" width=\"600\" height=\"250\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Patrick<\/strong> comes from the Latin name <em>Patricius<\/em>, which comes from the word  <em>patricius<\/em> (patrician, noble), from <em>patr\u0113s c\u014dnscr\u012bpt\u012b<\/em> (Roman senators, or literally \u201cenlisted fathers\u201d) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/patricius#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><em>patr\u0113s<\/em> is the plural of <em>pater<\/em> (father, head of household, parent, forefather, priest), which comes from the Proto-Italic <em>*pat\u0113r<\/em> (father), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*ph\u2082t\u1e17r<\/em> (father), from <em>*peh\u2082-<\/em> (to protect, shepherd) and\u200e <em>*-t\u1e17r<\/em> (agent suffix) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pater#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Another word that comes from <em>pater<\/em> is <strong>patronus<\/strong>, which in the magical world of Harry Potter is a spirit guardian that can be summoned with the charm <strong>Expecto Patronum<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/harrypotter.fandom.com\/wiki\/Patronus_Charm\">source<\/a>]. This is genunine Latin and means &#8220;I await my protector&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/patronus#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><em>c\u014dnscr\u012bpt\u012b<\/em> is the plural of <em>c\u014dnscr\u012bptus<\/em> (senator, counsel(l)or; enrolled, enlisted, composed), which comes from <em>conscr\u012bb\u014d<\/em> (I enroll, enlist, draw up, compose), from <em>con-<\/em> (with), and\u200e <em>scr\u012bb\u014d <\/em> (I write) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/conscriptus#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>conscript<\/strong> (One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service) comes from the same Latin root [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/conscript\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As today is St Patrick&#8217;s Day, I thought I&#8217;d look into the origins of the name Patrick. Patrick comes from the Latin name Patricius, which comes from the word patricius (patrician, noble), from patr\u0113s c\u014dnscr\u012bpt\u012b (Roman senators, or literally \u201cenlisted fathers\u201d) [source]. patr\u0113s is the plural of pater (father, head of household, parent, forefather, priest), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,127,10,15,45,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-italic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22038"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22044,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions\/22044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}