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Word of the Day for Thursday March 23, 2006
paterfamilias \pay-tuhr-fuh-MIL-ee-uhs; pat-uhr-; pah-\, noun; plural patresfamilias \pay-treez-; pat-reez-; pah-treez-\: The male head of a household or the father of a family.
His father served as paterfamilias to the entire Garc�a clan, dispensing money and advice to those who needed it, and the family, in turn, revered him. -- Leslie Stainton, [1]Lorca: A Dream of Life
Just after World War II the paterfamilias, Eric, briefly abandons his wife and children for a doomed romance in Paris. -- John Domini, "review of Drowning, by Lee Grove," [2]New York Times, July 21, 1991
On the face of it, Henry Spencer Ashbee was a typical middle-class Victorian: a successful businessman, a strict paterfamilias. -- Iain Finlayson, "Victorian erotic values," [3]Times (London), February 21, 2001 _________________________________________________________
Paterfamilias is from Latin pater, "father" + familias, "of the family or household," the archaic genitive form of familia, "family or household."
References
1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374527024/ref=nosim/lexico 2. http://www.nytimes.com/ 3. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
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