uxorilocal

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin uxor (“wife”) + local.

Adjective

uxorilocal (not comparable)

1. (anthropology) Matrilocal.
   • 1969, Georges Perec, Gilbert Adair (translator), A Void:

     In Gogni (Chad) a Sokoro, clad in his traditional tunic, a tunic as long as a raglan coat such as a snobbishly insular Parisian might sport whilst on safari, paid a visit to a son of his who was living in Mokulu as a willing victim of an unusual (and, until now, unknown) marital status constituting a paradoxical - or, as anthropologists say, "uxorilocal" - form of subjugation.

Derived terms

• uxorilocality
• uxorilocally