paterfamilias

• pater familias

(c. 1425 to 1475) From late Middle English paterfamilias, from Latin pater familiās. From Latin pater (“father”) + familiās, archaic genitive of familia (“family; household”). Literally, "father of the family" or "father of the household".

paterfamilias (plural paterfamiliases or patresfamilias)

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

• patriarch

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

paterfamilias m (plural paterfamilias)

1. paterfamilias

• “paterfamilias”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024