patriarchal

English

Alternative forms

• patriarchial

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin patriarchālis, from patriarcha + -ālis. Sychronically analyzable as patriarch +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpeɪtɹiˈɑɹkl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpeɪtɹiˈɑːkl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kəl

Adjective

patriarchal (comparative more patriarchal, superlative most patriarchal)

1. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
   • 1852, Alfred Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     About whose patriarchal knee / Late the little children clung.

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

Synonyms

• patriarchial
• patriarchic

Coordinate terms

• matriarchal

Derived terms

• patriarchal church

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

Arabic: بَطْرِيَرْكِيّ (baṭriyarkiyy) Bulgarian: патриаршески (patriaršeski) Esperanto: patriarĥa, patriarka French: patriarcal (fr)

relating to patriarchy

Bulgarian: патриархален (bg) (patriarhalen) Catalan: patriarcal Czech: patriarchální Danish: patriakal, patriarkalsk Dutch: patriarchaal (nl), aartsvaderlijk (nl) Esperanto: patriarĥa, patriarka Faroese: ættfaðirligur French: patriarcal (fr) Galician: patriarcal (gl) German: patriarchal (de), patriarchalisch (de), patriarchisch Greek: πατριαρχικός (el) (patriarchikós) Hindi: पितृसत्ताक (hi) (pitŕsattāk), पितृसत्तात्मक (hi) (pitŕsattātmak) Hungarian: patriarchális (hu) Indonesian: patriarkis, patriarkal Italian: patriarcale (it) Manx: ard-ayroil Marathi: पुरुषसत्ताक (puruṣsattāk) Norwegian: Bokmål: patriarkal, patriarkalsk Nynorsk: patriarkal, patriarkalsk Occitan: patriarcal (oc) Portuguese: patriarcal (pt) Russian: патриарха́льный (ru) (patriarxálʹnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: па̏тријарха̄лан Roman: pȁtrijarhālan (sh) Spanish: patriarcal (es) Swedish: patriarkal (sv), patriarkalisk (sv)