paterfamilias

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pa=ter=fa=mil=i=as

CIDE DICTIONARY

paterfamilias, n. [L., fr. pater father + familias, gen. of familia family.].

 The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

paterfamilias, n. the male head of a family or household.

Etymology

L, = father of the family

THESAURUS

paterfamilias

abba, boss, bwana, chef, chief, church dignitary, dad, daddy, ecclesiarch, elder, employer, father, foster father, genitor, goodman, governor, guru, husband, liege, liege lord, lord, lord paramount, master, overlord, pa, padrone, pap, papa, pappy, paramount, pater, patriarch, patron, pop, pops, rabbi, sahib, seigneur, seignior, sire, starets, stepfather, teacher, the old man

ROGET THESAURUS

paterfamilias

Paternity

N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.