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Today's Word "paterfamilias"

Male head of a household on

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paterfamilias \pay-tuhr-fuh-MIL-ee-uhs; pat-uhr-; pah-\ (noun) plural patresfamilias \pay-treez-; pat-reez-; pah-treez-\ - The male head of a household or the father of a family.

"I'll tell you what I am - I'm the darn paterfamilias! You can't marry him!" -- Ulysses Everett McGill, 'O Brother, Where Art Thou'

 

Paterfamilias is from Latin pater, "father" + familias, "of the family or household," the archaic genitive form of familia, "family or household."


 

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