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Definition of paterfamilias in English: paterfamiliasnounPlural patresfamilias ˌpeɪtəfəˈmɪlɪasˌpatəfəˈmɪlɪas The male head of a family or household. at the meal, the story of the Passover is told by the paterfamilias Compare with materfamilias Example sentencesExamples - On being asked how they did it, the paterfamilias commented that it was the inevitable result of coming from two covenanted peoples.
- It was bad advice that would have put everyone through the grinder in the name of protecting my rights as paterfamilias.
- Siva, the paterfamilias, is not present, but his picture, often along with that of other deities, is portrayed in the decorative designs above the image.
- That he is a Mormon, a professor, and a paterfamilias adds spice to his mischief.
- The current movie is about a family named Baker, of which the paterfamilias is a small-time college football coach, and the mother is a homemaker.
- Beneath these specific demands, however, and colouring all of them, was a passionate desire to destroy the authority of the paterfamilias.
- He's a garrulous paterfamilias who has somehow picked up the incongruous metropolitan affectation of a stubby cigarette holder.
- Late in the film, we discover that the paterfamilias has a gay brother.
- In the old civic code, the wife was nothing but an accessory to the work of the citizen and paterfamilias.
- But the legitimization of the traditional family provided by the paterfamilias doctrine was reaffirmed by conservative courts through a doctrine of ‘family autonomy’ in the 1920s.
- Like women and slaves, children were the property of the paterfamilias and could be sold or abandoned, as girls often were.
- The old image of Dickens, fostered by his surviving family, as a benign paterfamilias and as a man piously wedded to Victorian domestic virtues was thus tarnished.
- The sweet sounds of the banjo are replaced by the elderly paterfamilias, who starts to play a mouth organ.
- I know that this is changing, particularly among the better-off and better-educated, but many a Bulgarian father, it seems, is still rather like the paterfamilias of old.
- At the heart of the Roman family was the paterfamilias, the father of the family.
- The genius of the paterfamilias was honored in familial worship as a household god and was thought to perpetuate a family through many generations.
- There is a law of persons, or the family, which reflects Roman family life, with the paterfamilias, the wife and children, and the slaves.
- In fact I think it's kind of cute, in a Victorian paterfamilias kinda way.
- The paterfamilias or head of the family had the right, in theory at least, to execute summarily any member, including in primis his slaves.
- Many men still think about fatherhood in terms of the paterfamilias, or traditional father.
Synonyms male parent, begetter, patriarch
Origin Latin, literally 'father of the family'. Definition of paterfamilias in US English: paterfamiliasnoun The male head of a family or household. at the meal, the story of the Passover is told by the paterfamilias Compare with materfamilias Example sentencesExamples - He's a garrulous paterfamilias who has somehow picked up the incongruous metropolitan affectation of a stubby cigarette holder.
- I know that this is changing, particularly among the better-off and better-educated, but many a Bulgarian father, it seems, is still rather like the paterfamilias of old.
- The sweet sounds of the banjo are replaced by the elderly paterfamilias, who starts to play a mouth organ.
- There is a law of persons, or the family, which reflects Roman family life, with the paterfamilias, the wife and children, and the slaves.
- But the legitimization of the traditional family provided by the paterfamilias doctrine was reaffirmed by conservative courts through a doctrine of ‘family autonomy’ in the 1920s.
- It was bad advice that would have put everyone through the grinder in the name of protecting my rights as paterfamilias.
- At the heart of the Roman family was the paterfamilias, the father of the family.
- The old image of Dickens, fostered by his surviving family, as a benign paterfamilias and as a man piously wedded to Victorian domestic virtues was thus tarnished.
- Many men still think about fatherhood in terms of the paterfamilias, or traditional father.
- In fact I think it's kind of cute, in a Victorian paterfamilias kinda way.
- Siva, the paterfamilias, is not present, but his picture, often along with that of other deities, is portrayed in the decorative designs above the image.
- The current movie is about a family named Baker, of which the paterfamilias is a small-time college football coach, and the mother is a homemaker.
- Like women and slaves, children were the property of the paterfamilias and could be sold or abandoned, as girls often were.
- Late in the film, we discover that the paterfamilias has a gay brother.
- That he is a Mormon, a professor, and a paterfamilias adds spice to his mischief.
- On being asked how they did it, the paterfamilias commented that it was the inevitable result of coming from two covenanted peoples.
- The genius of the paterfamilias was honored in familial worship as a household god and was thought to perpetuate a family through many generations.
- The paterfamilias or head of the family had the right, in theory at least, to execute summarily any member, including in primis his slaves.
- In the old civic code, the wife was nothing but an accessory to the work of the citizen and paterfamilias.
- Beneath these specific demands, however, and colouring all of them, was a passionate desire to destroy the authority of the paterfamilias.
Synonyms male parent, begetter, patriarch
Origin Latin, literally ‘father of the family’. |