patrilineal
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- adjective
- /ˌpætrɪˈlɪniəl/
- Specialized
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patrilineal
- For example, in these Veracruzan Teenek villages, land bequests are exclusively patrilineal.
- patrilineal descent
- patrilineal society
- patrilineal inheritance
Examples
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The gender division of labor (combined with patrilineal property rights) tends to reduce the perceived benefits of female education.
Academic text (1998) -
Mafa and Sirak societies are, like those of other peoples of the region, strongly patrilineal and patriarchal.
Academic text (1991) -
Such households were in turn set within the matrix of the extended patrilineal family.
Academic text (1998) -
In a majority of cases, men bestow patrilineal names on their own sons.
Academic text (1992) -
In the Akan world, relationships of trust tend to follow the patrilineal line.
Academic text (1998) -
But, since property inheritance is patrilineal, the neolocal household's economic base is largely controlled by men.
Academic text (1994) -
The Mikea are organized into patrilineal bands and are virilocal.
Academic text (1991) -
In societies organized according to patrilineal descent, sacrificing was predominantly, and in most cases exclusively, a male affair.
Academic text (1995) -
Religious life revolves around the patrilineal clans (wetso), which constitute the primary basis of social organization.
Academic text (1991) -
In societies with a patrilineal system, lineage is traced through the father.
Synonyms
Family descent that follows fathers to their sons
Family descent traced only through the father's side
Related to the father's side of a family
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Patrilineal comes from the parts patri- meaning 'father' and -lineal meaning 'line' or 'descent', like in paternal. So a patrilineal system traces family and inheritance down the father's line, from father to son.