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English
Etymology
From patri- + local.
Adjective
patrilocal (not comparable)
- (of a married couple) living with the family of the husband.
- (anthropology, of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the husband's family.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:In barring the way, he is enacting a ritual which demands that the new way of patrilocal marriage pay its respect to the more ancient way of matrilocal marriage.
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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
patrilocal (feminine patrilocale, masculine plural patrilocaux, feminine plural patrilocales)
- patrilocal
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French patrilocal.
Adjective
patrilocal m or n (feminine singular patrilocală, masculine plural patrilocali, feminine and neuter plural patrilocale)
- patrilocal
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