patriarchal

English

Alternative forms

• patriarchial

Etymology

patriarch +‎ -al

Adjective

patriarchal (comparative more patriarchal, superlative most patriarchal)

1. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
   • (Can we date this quote by Tennyson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     About whose patriarchal knee / Late the little children clung.

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

Synonyms

• patriarchial
• patriarchic

Coordinate terms

• matriarchal

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

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• Arabic: بَطْرِيَرْكِيّ (baṭriyarkiyy)
• French: patriarcal (fr)

relating to patriarchy

• Catalan: patriarcal
• Czech: patriarchální
• Danish: patriakal, patriarkalsk
• Dutch: patriarchaal (nl), aartsvaderlijk (nl)
• Faroese: ættfaðirligur
• French: patriarcal (fr)
• Galician: patriarcal (gl) m or f
• German: patriarchal, patriarchalisch (de), patriarchisch
• Greek: πατριαρχικός (el) (patriarchikós)
• Hindi: पितृसत्ताक (hi) (pitŕsattāk), पितृसत्तात्मक (hi) (pitŕsattātmak)
• Hungarian: patriarchális (hu)
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• Italian: patriarcale (it)
• Manx: ard-ayroil
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: patriarkal, patriarkalsk

  Nynorsk: patriarkal, patriarkalsk

• Portuguese: patriarcal
• Russian: патриарха́льный (ru) (patriarxálʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̏тријарха̄лан

  Roman: pȁtrijarhālan (sh)

• Spanish: patriarcal (es)
• Swedish: patriarkal (sv), patriarkalisk (sv)