patrilateral
- adjective
- /ˌpætrɪˈlætərəl/
- Specialized
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patrilateral
- The child's inheritance was influenced by patrilateral customs, ensuring that family assets were passed down through the father's side.
- patrilateral cousin
- patrilateral marriage
- patrilateral cross
Examples
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The people most affected by the redefinition of land had inherited land matrilineally and had allowed their patrilateral group membership and territorial rights to lapse.
Academic text (1991) -
By contrast, it is very likely for brothers to live in the same neighborhood, and therefore, for patrilateral parallel cousin marriages to be between neighbors.
Academic text (1994) -
At the same time, the patrilateral form also finds a place within this ideological system.
Academic text (1992) -
Since all patrilateral parallel cousins know each other for their entire lives, they are thought to have similar values and compatible personalities.
Academic text (1994) -
The other is a hierarchically mobile model whose most complex form in the area would probably be the patrilateral exchange of the Ashanti dynastic marriages.
Academic text (1992) -
In the case of the two descent lines of Ngelekazo, marriage with the patrilateral cross cousin does not help to define power relationships among groups of relatives.
Academic text (1992) -
Through patrilateral marriage, the Ezohile aim to disintegrate allied lines by absorbing men who lend themselves to marriage with a cousin.
Academic text (1992) -
Also, marriage between the children of brothers is inexpensive because few patrilateral parallel cousin marriages involve the payment of bride price, and so are especially valued among poorer households.
Academic text (1994) -
At the heart of the local political scene, we find an elementary form of marriage, patrilateral exchange, which expresses and establishes relations between two lines of matrilineal descent.
Academic text (1992) -
Like patrilateral parallel cousin marriages, komsu marriages are thought to comprise highly compatible and predictable bonds.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
11
4.1
From the father's side of the family
1
8.5
About family descent and inheritance through the father's side
Family descent that follows fathers to their sons
Family descent traced only through the father's side
Related through the father's family
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word patrilateral comes from Latin parts patri- 'father' and -lateral 'side', the same ideas you see in paternal and lateral. So patrilateral describes something that comes from or belongs to the father's side of the family.