patriarchal

patriarchal

English

Alternative forms

• patriarchial

Etymology

patriarch +‎ -al

Adjective

patriarchal (comparative more patriarchal, superlative most patriarchal)

1. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
   • Tennyson

     About whose patriarchal knee / Late the little children clung.

2. Relating to a system run by males, rather than females.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• metapatriarchal
• patriarchal cross

• patriarchalism
• patriarchally

Related terms

• patriarch
• patriarchy

Translations

relating to patriarchy

Catalan: patriarcal Czech: patriarchální Danish: patriakalsk Dutch: patriarchaal (nl), aartsvaderlijk (nl) Faroese: ættfaðirligur French: patriarcal (fr) German: patriarchalisch (de) Greek: πατριαρχικός (el) (patriarchikós) Hungarian: patriarchális (hu)

Italian: patriarcale (it) Manx: ard-ayroil Portuguese: patriarcal Russian: патриарха́льный (ru) (patriarxálʹnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: па̏тријарха̄лан Roman: pȁtrijarhālan (sh) Spanish: patriarcal (es)

See also

• matriarchal