Daily Ancestoragnatus
Agnatus is Latin for an agnate, a relative connected through the male line, as opposed to kin through a mother.
An agnatus is related to you through the male line, for example a father's brother or a father's brother's son. Look for the word in papers about inheritance and guardianship as well as in parish books.
As a participle the same spelling can also mean born after or grown later. Wiktionary lists adgnatus as another spelling.
As seen in a recordLatin guardianship record, Austria, 1700s
Tutor datus est Antonius Lessauer, agnatus pupilli
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Daily Ancestor. "agnatus." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/latin/agnatus. Last checked 2026-10-12.