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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
patrimonial (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to patrimony.
- Legally (or otherwise) inherited from one or more ancestors.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- […] Cluffe, who had had two or three sharp little visits of his patrimonial gout […]
- 2017 [2013], Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 173:
- The general evolution is clear: bubbles aside, what we are witnessing is a strong comeback of private capital in the rich countries since 1970, or, to put it another way, the emergence of a new patrimonial capitalism.
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French
Pronunciation
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Adjective
patrimonial (feminine patrimoniale, masculine plural patrimoniaux, feminine plural patrimoniales)
Further reading
- “patrimonial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pa‧tri‧mo‧ni‧al
Adjective
patrimonial m or f (plural patrimoniais)
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French patrimonial. By surface analysis, patrimoniu + -al.
Adjective
patrimonial m or n (feminine singular patrimonială, masculine plural patrimoniali, feminine and neuter plural patrimoniale)
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
Adjective
patrimonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural patrimoniales)
- patrimonial, hereditary
- heritage (e.g. heritage site or building, heritage value)
- (linguistics) inherited
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Further reading
- “patrimonial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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