patriarca

Meaning

1. (masculine) patriarch (male head of a community or household)
2. (masculine) patriarch (highest rank of bishop)

Concepts

patriarch

head of household

paterfamilias

patriarchy

Sire

Translations

patriarche

patriarca

patriarca

patriarca

Patriarch

aartsvader

patriarch

πατριάρχης

patriarcha

pater familias

بَطْرِيَرْك

patrik

jefe de familia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pa.tɾiˈaʁ.kɐ/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese patriarca, patriarcha, borrowed from Late Latin patriarcha, from Byzantine Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs, “the founder of the tribe/family”), from Ancient Greek πατριά (patriá, “generation, ancestry, descent, tribe, family”) + -άρχης (-árkhēs, “-arch”).