PATERFAMILIAS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: patresfamilias   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The male head of family or tribe

Synonyms:

paterfamilias; patriarch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("paterfamilias" is a kind of...):

head of household (the head of a household or family or tribe)

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

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