pater-, patri-, patro-, patr-, -patria
(Latin: father, dad, pop (family member); fatherland, country, nation)
patricidal
1. The act of killing one's father.
2. Someone who kills his/her father.
Patrick and Patricia
Masculine and feminine names (in sequence shown) from Latin patricius, a patrician.
patriclinous
patricliny
Inheritance of traits which are primarily from the father.
patrilineal, patrilineage
1. Designating or of descent, kinship, or derivation through the father instead of the mother.
2. Related to descent through the male line; inheritance of the Y chromosome is exclusively patrilineal.
patrilocal, patrilocality
A marriage of a young couple in which they live with the husband’s parents.
patrimonial
patrimonially
patrimony
1. Property inherited from one’s father or ancestors.
2. Property endowed to an institution, as a church.
3. Anything inherited, as a trait or character.
patriot, patriotic
A person who loves and loyally or zealously supports his own country.
patriotism
Love and loyal or zealous support of one’s own country
patripassian
One who held, as certain early heretics, that God the Father suffered with or in the person of the Son for the redemption of man.
patripotestal
Characterized by the exercise of authority by the father or his relatives in a family or household.
patrist, patristic
One versed in the lives or writings of the Fathers of the Christian Church.
patrocest
1. Having sex with one’s father.
2. Sexual intercourse with one's daughter.
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