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paterfamilias::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | patriarch |
| Type of | adult male, head of household, man |
Examples of paterfamilias
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Frank Orrall, the band's paterfamilias and grand poobah, says the time is right.
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With this declined the old Roman system of education carried out by the paterfamilias.
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Her name was Helena Goldenhagen, and she pleased this young paterfamilias of the Bronx.
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Tom Bosley, a TV fixture as the paterfamilias on Happy Days, died Oct.
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He evokes a paterfamilias of hair-trigger reactions, one who wears his heart on both sleeves.
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At home Freud was the image of the stalwart, bourgeois paterfamilias.
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The paterfamilias is either losing his temper with his family or waxing lyrical about them.
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That's Joe Jackson, paterfamilias and creator of the Jackson Five.
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It's an old tune, one perfected by the paterfamilias of terrorism, the wretched Yasser Arafat.
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- Patriarch: the male head of family or tribe
- The paterfamilias (plural: patres familias) was the head of a Roman family. The term is Latin for "father of the family" or the "owner of the family estate". The form is irregular and archaic in Latin, preserving the old genitive ending in -as (see Latin declension). ...
- The oldest living male relative of a particular Roman familia.
- The head of the family. He had absolute control over all the members of his family, including the right of life & death. Heads of families did decide to expose new-born children, and even on occasion to execute wives or sons. ...
