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Meanings of paterfamilias in English

Portuguese
patriarca

The male head of family or tribe.

        patriarca
        Usage of paterfamilias in English
        1
        Like every paterfamilias, Octavianus had complete power over me in this regard.
        Cleopatra's Moon
        2
        Duroy knew that the manager was a paterfamilias, but he was astonished.
        Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel
        3
        As a middle-aged paterfamilias I may benefit financially from this war.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Not good behavior in a paterfamilias, but the habit told its own tale.
        Christian's Mistake
        5
        The complication came about by the paterfamilias having missed his calling.
        Calvary Alley
        6
        Contented paterfamilias and monarch of all he surveys, Joe's is, indeed, a golden existence.
        The Irish Times
        7
        Mr. Schmuck was an excellent "paterfamilias," and took great care of children.
        Debts of Honor
        8
        It's impossible to tell whether it's the butler or paterfamilias.
        Penelope's English Experiences / Being Extracts from the Commonp...
        9
        That paterfamilias with the red moustache-ishe a soldier, a solicitor, a stockbroker, what?
        Yet Again
        10
        In the earlier film he played a malevolent paterfamilias.
        The Irish Times
        11
        Why is the Sisyphus a hard working paterfamilias and the sacred beetle an idle vagabond?
        The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
        12
        The habit of running up bills with the milliners, and swindling paterfamilias on the house bills.
        Roundabout Papers
        13
        It was the paterfamilias who was up now, and the elderly relative was signing to him.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 2, 1917
        14
        The Roman ethos was strictly conservative: it valued the authority of the paterfamilias and ancestral custom.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
        15
        The world changes and paterfamilias ought to change with it out of consideration for his children.
        The Opinions of a Philosopher
        16
        That is how the ugly paterfamilias is made.
        Watersprings
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        Portuguese
        patriarca
        Paterfamilias through the time