Picture the few old families at the top of early Rome — the fathers, the ones with a seat in the Senate and first claim on every office. Everything the word does today is measured from that small group: being one of them, belonging to them, looking as if you might, and governing in their manner even now.
可以想成早期羅馬最上面那幾個老家族——那些「父輩」，元老院裡有位子、官職先輪到他們。這個字今天的每一種用法，量尺都還是那一小群人：是他們其中一個、屬於那個階層、看起來像出自那裡，或者到了現代仍然用他們那種姿態在治理。
From the word’s history
Borrowed from Middle French patricien, from Latin patricius, derived from patres conscripti, the Roman senators; the patr- element is father.
經由中古法文 patricien 借自拉丁文 patricius，而 patricius 連到 patrēs cōnscrīptī，也就是羅馬的元老。patr- 這一塊是「父親」，所以「元老＝父輩」這個畫面一開始就寫在字裡。
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