patrilocal
English
Etymology
patri- + local
Adjective
patrilocal (not comparable)
- (of a married couple) living with the family of the husband.
- (anthropology, of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the husband's family.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:
- In barring the way, he is enacting a ritual which demands that the new way of patrilocal marriage pay its respect to the more ancient way of matrilocal marriage.
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Synonyms
- virilocal
See also
- matrilocal, uxorilocal
- neolocal
- duolocal
Anagrams
- allopatric
French
Adjective
patrilocal (feminine patrilocale, masculine plural patrilocaux, feminine plural patrilocales)
- patrilocal
Further reading
- “patrilocal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French patrilocal.
Adjective
patrilocal m or n (feminine singular patrilocală, masculine plural patrilocali, feminine and neuter plural patrilocale)
- patrilocal
Declension
Declension of patrilocal
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative | indefinite | patrilocal | patrilocală | patrilocali | patrilocale | ||
definite | patrilocalul | patrilocala | patrilocalii | patrilocalele | |||
genitive/ dative | indefinite | patrilocal | patrilocale | patrilocali | patrilocale | ||
definite | patrilocalului | patrilocalei | patrilocalilor | patrilocalelor |