| 释义 |
Definition of affinal in English: affinaladjective əˈfʌɪn(ə)l Anthropology Concerning or having a family relationship by marriage. Example sentencesExamples - Does it belong to the birth family or the affinal family?
- Consanguineal relatives are considered more important than are affinal relatives.
- Buffaloes, preferably full-grown bulls, are involved in funerals in two ways: some are contributed by consanguineal relatives and others are lent by affinal kin or even friends.
- Nucleated villages consisted of two localised clan branches, one from each moiety, which maintained complex and enduring affinal, political, economic, and ritual relations of reciprocity of various sorts.
- Most cases illustrated here concern fine-tuning of the affinal category in such a way that it is possible to establish the necessary distinctions among classificatory in-laws, potential in-laws and actual in-laws.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Latin affinis 'related' (see affinity) + -al. |