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paterfamilias

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pa·ter·fa·mil·i·as  (ptr-f-ml-s, pä-, ptr-)
n. pl. pa·tres·fa·mil·i·as (ptrz-, pä-, ptrz-)
A man who is the head of a household or the father of a family.
[Latin paterfamilis : pater, father; see pater + familis, archaic genitive of familia, family; see family.]
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Noun1.paterfamiliaspaterfamilias - the male head of family or tribe    
patriarch
head of household - the head of a household or family or tribe
adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"


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Even the general, the paterfamilias, though astonished at first, suddenly declared that, "upon his honour, he really believed he had fancied something of the kind, after all.
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