patrilocal

English

Etymology

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.

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French

Adjective

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

  1. patrilocal

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French patrilocal.

Adjective

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

  1. patrilocal

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