different between household vs paterfamilias

English

Etymology

From Middle English houshold, equivalent to house +? hold. Cognate with Scots houshald, housald, housell, howsell (“household”), Dutch huishouden (“household”), German Low German Huushollen (“household”), German Haushalt (“household”), Swedish hushåll (“household, family”), Norwegian husholdning (“household”).

Pronunciation

• (UK): IPA^(key): /?ha?sh??ld/
• (US): enPR: hous?h?ld, IPA^(key): /?ha?sho?ld/

Noun

household (plural households)

1. Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 5:

     Although I was a member of the royal household, I was not among the privileged few who were trained for rule.

   • 1732, Jonathan Swift, The Beasts' Confession to the Priest

     And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.

2. (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, IV. vi. 39:

     In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

Translations

Adjective

household (not comparable)

1. Belonging to the same house and family.
2. Found in or having its origin in a home.
3. Widely known to the public; familiar.

   a household word; a household name

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology

From around 1425 to 1475 from late Middle English which itself came from the Latin term with the same meaning. From the Latin term pater ("father") + famili?s, an archaic genitive of familia ("family", "household"). Literally meaning "father of the family" or "father of the household". Confer the English word family.

Noun

paterfamilias (plural paterfamiliases or patresfamilias)

1. A man who is the head of a household, family or tribe.

Synonyms

• patriarch

Antonyms

• (a woman who is the head of a household): materfamilias

Translations

Spanish

Noun

paterfamilias m (plural paterfamilias)

1. paterfamilias