patrilocal

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English

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Etymology

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patri- +‎ local

Adjective

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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

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

  1. patrilocal

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French patrilocal.

Adjective

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

  1. patrilocal

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