paterfamilias in English

noun
1
the male head of a family or household.
At the heart of the Roman family was the paterfamilias , the father of the family.

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1. So sons legally were still under their paterfamilias.

2. Paterfamilias mentalities are important factors to affect childrens rehabilitation.

3. Paterfamilias mentalities are important factors to affect deaf childrens rehabilitation.

4. Then they became part of the family-Ellwood as paterfamilias.

5. After six wives and eight children, he emerges as a smiling paterfamilias.

6. Mat, winsome, handsome, pipe-smoking paterfamilias, introduced us to the fishermen at the table.

7. I asked the paterfamilias if they were in web bar and they answer they might be.

8. Her name was Helena Goldenhagen, and she pleased this young paterfamilias of the Bronx.

9. Dad as ever the Greek paterfamilias worried more about us than him - Were we sacrificing work meetings?

10. Sons and daughters, though, were still part of the household, as long as the paterfamilias was alive.

11. Hugo Waldman was the paterfamilias of the whole tribe—nephews, cousins, and uncles-in-law who lived along the Concourse in lesser palaces.

12. For example, they might-- paterfamilias would often put a slave up in business, give a slave enough money to run a business.

13. He and his family, the emperor's family, - was, in a sense, the patron for the whole people of the Roman Empire-- - at least for all the Romans-- the paterfamilias of the entire empire.

14. The people he's named are kind of considered the patrons the paterfamilias of the house church and then the house church has this patron client structure Keep that in mind when we talk about this.