patria potestas
English
Etymology
From Latin patria potestās.
Noun
patria potestas (uncountable)
- (historical) The legal power and rights of a Roman father over his children and descendants by virtue of his paternity.
- 1870, William George Smith (ed.), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 3rd American ed., page 742
- It was a condition of the patria potestas that the child should be born in marriage.
- 1870, William George Smith (ed.), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 3rd American ed., page 742
Translations
legal power and rights of a Roman father
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