relative (subs.) Copy link • relative (subs.): v. related. The pl., r.s, may be also expr. collect. by the abstr. words denoting relationship: when all your r.s are carried in a waggon, quum tibi tota cognatio sarraco vehatur, Cic. fragm. in Quint. 8, 3, 21: Caes.: in regard to his r.s, respectu suarum necessitudinum, Tac. H. 3, 59, ad fin.: the r.s who bore his name renounced the name of Manlius, gentilitas ejus Manlii cognomen ejuravit, Aur. Vict. vir. ill. 24: Varr.