adj
Meaning 1
Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
patriarchal
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˌpeɪtɹiˈɑɹkl̩/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌpeɪtɹiˈɑːkl̩/
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)kəl
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CMU ARPABET: P EY2 T R IY0 AA1 R K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Relating to a system run by males, rather than females; relating to a patriarchy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: matriarchal
adjective
Meaning 4
relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin patriarchālis, from patriarcha + -ālis. Sychronically analyzable as patriarch + -al.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بَطْرِيَرْكِيّ (baṭriyarkiyy) — characteristic of a patriarch
- Bulgarian: патриаршески (patriaršeski) — characteristic of a patriarch
- Esperanto: patriarĥa — characteristic of a patriarch
- Esperanto: patriarka — characteristic of a patriarch
- French: patriarcal — characteristic of a patriarch
- Bulgarian: патриархален (patriarhalen) — relating to patriarchy
- Catalan: patriarcal — relating to patriarchy
- Czech: patriarchální — relating to patriarchy
- Danish: patriakal — relating to patriarchy
- Danish: patriarkalsk — relating to patriarchy
- Dutch: patriarchaal — relating to patriarchy
- Dutch: aartsvaderlijk — relating to patriarchy
- Esperanto: patriarĥa — relating to patriarchy
- Esperanto: patriarka — relating to patriarchy
- Faroese: ættfaðirligur — relating to patriarchy
- French: patriarcal — relating to patriarchy
- Galician: patriarcal — relating to patriarchy
- German: patriarchal — relating to patriarchy
- German: patriarchalisch — relating to patriarchy
- German: patriarchisch — relating to patriarchy
- Greek: πατριαρχικός (patriarchikós) — relating to patriarchy
- Hindi: पितृसत्ताक (pitŕsattāk) — relating to patriarchy
- Hindi: पितृसत्तात्मक (pitŕsattātmak) — relating to patriarchy
- Hungarian: patriarchális — relating to patriarchy
- Indonesian: patriarkis — relating to patriarchy
- Indonesian: patriarkal — relating to patriarchy
- Italian: patriarcale — relating to patriarchy
- Manx: ard-ayroil — relating to patriarchy
- Marathi: पुरुषसत्ताक (puruṣsattāk) — relating to patriarchy
- Norwegian Bokmål: patriarkal — relating to patriarchy
- Norwegian Bokmål: patriarkalsk — relating to patriarchy
- Norwegian Nynorsk: patriarkal — relating to patriarchy
- Norwegian Nynorsk: patriarkalsk — relating to patriarchy
- Occitan: patriarcal — relating to patriarchy
- Portuguese: patriarcal — relating to patriarchy
- Russian: патриарха́льный (patriarxálʹnyj) — relating to patriarchy
- Serbo-Croatian: па̏тријарха̄лан — relating to patriarchy
- Serbo-Croatian: pȁtrijarhālan — relating to patriarchy
- Spanish: patriarcal — relating to patriarchy
- Swedish: patriarkal — relating to patriarchy
- Swedish: patriarkalisk — relating to patriarchy
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