uxorilocal
English
Etymology
From Latin uxor (“wife”) + local.
Adjective
uxorilocal (not comparable)
- (anthropology) Matrilocal.
- 1969, Georges Perec, Gilbert Adair (translator), A Void:
- In Gogni (Chad) a Sokoro, clad in his traditional tunic, a tunic as long as a raglan coat such as a snobbishly insular Parisian might sport whilst on safari, paid a visit to a son of his who was living in Mokulu as a willing victim of an unusual (and, until now, unknown) marital status constituting a paradoxical - or, as anthropologists say, "uxorilocal" - form of subjugation.
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Derived terms
- uxorilocality
- uxorilocally
French
Adjective
uxorilocal (feminine uxorilocale, masculine plural uxorilocaux, feminine plural uxorilocales)
- uxorilocal
Further reading
- “uxorilocal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.