levirate
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lēvir (“husband's brother, brother-in-law”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dayh₂wḗr (“one's brother-in-law”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]levirate (not comparable)
Usage notes
[edit]- This adjective is used almost exclusively as part of the phrase levirate marriage.
Translations
[edit]Noun
[edit]levirate (plural levirates)
- (countable) A marriage between a widow and her deceased husband's brother or, sometimes, heir.
- (anthropology) The institution of levirate marriage.
- 1894, Edward Westermarck, The History of Human Marriage, 2nd edition, Macmillan and Co., page 510:
- And it is, he says, impossible not to believe that the Levirate—that is, the practice of marrying a dead brother's widow—is derived from polyandry.
- 1986, Claus Westermann, translated by John S. Scullion, Genesis 37-50: A Continental Commentary, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 52:
- It is only a secondary purpose of the levirate that the property of the deceased passes on to the one who is heir to his name, and is probably a later accretion.
- 2006, Gary P. Ferraro, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, Thomson Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 219:
- The levirate is found in patrilineal societies in which the bride marries into her husband's family while essentially severing her ties with her original family.
Translations
[edit]marriage
|
institution
|
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms suffixed with -ate (adjective)
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Anthropology
- English terms with quotations