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PATERFAMILIAS (patresfamilias)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paterfamilias mean? 

PATERFAMILIAS (noun)
  The noun PATERFAMILIAS has 1 sense:

1. the male head of family or tribeplay

  Familiarity information: PATERFAMILIAS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PATERFAMILIAS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The male head of family or tribe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

paterfamilias; patriarch

Hypernyms ("paterfamilias" is a kind of...):

head of household (the head of a household or family or tribe)

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))


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