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)

1. 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.

2. Relating to a system run by males, rather than females; relating to a patriarchy.

Synonyms

• patriarchial
• patriarchic

Coordinate terms

• matriarchal

Derived terms

• patriarchal church

Derived terms

• heteropatriarchal
• homopatriarchal
• metapatriarchal
• patriarchal cross
• patriarchalism
• patriarchally

 

Related terms

• pater
• patriarch
• patriarchate
• patriarchy
• patrist
• patristic
• patristical
• patristically
• patristics

 

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)