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Meanings of
paterfamilias
in английском
португальский
patriarca
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The male head of family or tribe.
patriarch
португальский
patriarca
Usage of
paterfamilias
in английском
1
Like every
paterfamilias
,
Octavianus had complete power over me in this regard.
2
Duroy knew that the manager was a
paterfamilias
,
but he was astonished.
3
As a middle-aged
paterfamilias
I may benefit financially from this war.
4
Not good behavior in a
paterfamilias
,
but the habit told its own tale.
5
The complication came about by the
paterfamilias
having missed his calling.
6
Contented
paterfamilias
and monarch of all he surveys, Joe's is, indeed, a golden existence.
7
Mr. Schmuck was an excellent
"
paterfamilias
,
"
and took great care of children.
8
It's impossible to tell whether it's the butler or
paterfamilias
.
9
That
paterfamilias
with the red moustache-ishe a soldier, a solicitor, a stockbroker, what?
10
In the earlier film he played a malevolent
paterfamilias
.
11
Why is the Sisyphus a hard working
paterfamilias
and the sacred beetle an idle vagabond?
12
The habit of running up bills with the milliners, and swindling
paterfamilias
on the house bills.
13
It was the
paterfamilias
who was up now, and the elderly relative was signing to him.
14
The Roman ethos was strictly conservative: it valued the authority of the
paterfamilias
and ancestral custom.
15
The world changes and
paterfamilias
ought to change with it out of consideration for his children.
16
That is how the ugly
paterfamilias
is made.
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About this term
paterfamilias
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
old paterfamilias
aged paterfamilias
aspire paterfamilias
brutish paterfamilias
contented paterfamilias
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Translations for
paterfamilias
португальский
patriarca
Paterfamilias
through the time