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paterfamilias /ˌpeɪtəfəˈmɪlɪas / /ˌpatəfəˈmɪlɪas/noun (plural patresfamilias /ˌpeɪtriːzfəˈmɪlɪas/ /ˌpatriːzfəˈmɪlɪas/)The male head of a family or household: at the meal, the story of the Passover is told by the paterfamilias...- At the heart of the Roman family was the paterfamilias, the father of the family.
- 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.
- 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.
Compare with materfamilias. Origin Latin, literally 'father of the family'. Rhymes materfamilias |