different between patriarchy vs paternal

English

Etymology

From Latin patriarchia, from Byzantine Greek ?????????? (patriarkhía), from Koine Greek ?????????? (patriárkh?s, “patriarch”), from ?????? (patría) and ???? (árkh?).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pe?t(?)?i??ki/

Noun

patriarchy (plural patriarchies)

1. (anthropology, historical) A social system in which the father is head of the household, having authority over women and children, and in which lineage is traced through the male line.
2. A power structure in which men are dominant.
3. (Christianity) The office of a patriarch; a patriarchate.

Derived terms

• heteropatriarchy
• neopatriarchy

Related terms

• patriarch
• patriarchate
• patriarchal

Translations

See also

• matriarchy

English

Etymology

From Old French paternal (“of a father”) (12c.), a learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin patern?lis (“paternal”), from Classical Latin paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”), from pater (“father”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?-tû(r)'n?l, IPA^(key): /p??t??(?)n?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?l

Adjective

paternal (comparative more paternal, superlative most paternal)

1. Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family

2. Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
3. Received or inherited from one's father.
4. Acting as a father

Antonyms

• maternal – mother

Coordinate terms

• avuncular – uncle
• maternal – mother
• materteral – aunt

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• parental, prenatal

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin patern?lis. Compare the descended term paternel.

Adjective

paternal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular paternale)

1. paternal

Declension

Descendants

• English: paternal

Romanian

Etymology

From French paternel

Adjective

paternal m or n (feminine singular paternal?, masculine plural paternali, feminine and neuter plural paternale)

1. fatherly

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

paternal (plural paternales)

1. paternal, fatherly