patriarchal

English

Alternative forms

patriarchial

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin patriarchālis, from patriarcha + -ālis. Sychronically analyzable as patriarch +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

patriarchal (comparative more patriarchal, superlative most patriarchal)

Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
- 1852, Alfred Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
  About whose patriarchal knee / Late the little children clung.
Relating to a system run by males, rather than females; relating to a patriarchy.

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

matriarchal

Derived terms

patriarchal church

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

characteristic of a patriarch

Arabic: بَطْرِيَرْكِيّ (baṭriyarkiyy)
Bulgarian: патриаршески (patriaršeski)
Esperanto: patriarĥa, patriarka
French: patriarcal (fr)

relating to patriarchy

Bulgarian: патриархален (bg) (patriarhalen)
Catalan: patriarcal
Czech: patriarchální
Danish: patriakal, patriarkalsk
Dutch: patriarchaal (nl), aartsvaderlijk (nl)
Esperanto: patriarĥa, patriarka
Faroese: ættfaðirligur
French: patriarcal (fr)
Galician: patriarcal (gl)
German: patriarchal (de), patriarchalisch (de), patriarchisch
Greek: πατριαρχικός (el) (patriarchikós)
Hindi: पितृसत्ताक (hi) (pitŕsattāk), पितृसत्तात्मक (hi) (pitŕsattātmak)
Hungarian: patriarchális (hu)
Indonesian: patriarkis, patriarkal
Italian: patriarcale (it)
Manx: ard-ayroil
Norwegian:
Bokmål: patriarkal, patriarkalsk

Nynorsk: patriarkal, patriarkalsk
Occitan: patriarcal (oc)
Portuguese: patriarcal (pt)
Russian: патриарха́льный (ru) (patriarxálʹnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: па̏тријарха̄лан

Roman: pȁtrijarhālan (sh)
Spanish: patriarcal (es)
Swedish: patriarkal (sv), patriarkalisk (sv)

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