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单词 paterfamilias
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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

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