Definitions for paterfamilias

paterfamilias pa·ter·fa·mil·i·as

Spelling: [pey-ter-fuh-mil-ee-uh s, pah-, pat-er-]
IPA: /ˌpeɪ tər fəˈmɪl i əs, ˌpɑ-, ˌpæt ər-/

Paterfamilias is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 1768 anagrams from letters in paterfamilias (aaaefiilmprst).

Definitions for paterfamilias

noun

  1. the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
  2. Roman Law. the head of the Roman family; a juridical entity who holds the patria potestas. a person who is not under the patria potestas of another.

Origin of paterfamilias

1425-75; late Middle English Latin: literally, father (i.e., master) of the household, with archaic genitive form familiās of familia; see fa

Examples for paterfamilias

paterfamilias is afraid the young men will pay attention to his daughters.

It is the first labour of every governing man, from paterfamilias to Dominus Rex.

It is the distribution that must be looked to; it is the paterfamilias that is wanting in the State.

Well,” said I, “it was either the Lewis gun or paterfamilias the grim.

The writer—to do him justice—did not sign himself "paterfamilias."

But to paterfamilias these are all the joys or sorrows of another world.

"Something for you, Laura," said paterfamilias, as he threw a letter into her lap.

This self-indulgence on your part, my dear paterfamilias, is weak, vain—not to say culpable.

Motilal, the Nehru paterfamilias, had his suits made in Savile Row.

Mr. Schmuck was an excellent "paterfamilias," and took great care of children.

Word Value for paterfamilias
Scrable

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Words with friends

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