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PATERFAMILIAS (patresfamilias)
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Irregular inflected form: patresfamilias
Dictionary entry overview: What does paterfamilias mean?
• PATERFAMILIAS (noun)
The noun PATERFAMILIAS has 1 sense:
1. the male head of family or tribe
Familiarity information: PATERFAMILIAS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The male head of family or tribe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
paterfamilias; patriarch
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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