patria potestas
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin patria potestās.
Noun[edit]
- (historical) The legal power and rights of a Roman father over his children and descendants by virtue of his paternity.
- 1870, William George Smith (ed.), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 3rd American ed., page 742
- It was a condition of the patria potestas that the child should be born in marriage.
- 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 228:
- The Roman Vestals appear to have been under the patria potestas of the king, and, in repubmlican times, of the Pontifex Maximus, who succeeded to some of the king's functions. But if they were under the patria potestas of the king, they must have been either his wives or daughters.
- 1870, William George Smith (ed.), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 3rd American ed., page 742
Translations[edit]
legal power and rights of a Roman father
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