patrilocal

English

Etymology

From patri- +‎ local.

Adjective

patrilocal (not comparable)

1. (of a married couple) living with the family of the husband.
2. (anthropology, of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the husband's family.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:

     In barring the way, he is enacting a ritual which demands that the new way of patrilocal marriage pay its respect to the more ancient way of matrilocal marriage.

Synonyms

• virilocal

See also

• matrilocal, uxorilocal
• neolocal
• duolocal

Anagrams

• allopatric

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

patrilocal (feminine patrilocale, masculine plural patrilocaux, feminine plural patrilocales)

1. patrilocal

Further reading

• “patrilocal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French patrilocal.

Adjective

patrilocal m or n (feminine singular patrilocală, masculine plural patrilocali, feminine and neuter plural patrilocale)

1. patrilocal

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	patrilocal		patrilocală		patrilocali	patrilocale
	definite	patrilocalul		patrilocala		patrilocalii	patrilocalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	patrilocal		patrilocale		patrilocali	patrilocale
	definite	patrilocalului		patrilocalei		patrilocalilor	patrilocalelor