patriarca
Catalan
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Late Latin patriarcha, from Byzantine Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs, “the founder of the tribe/family”), from Ancient Greek πατριά (patriá, “generation, ancestry, descent, tribe, family”) + -αρχης (-arkhēs, “-arch”).
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Italian
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Late Latin patriarcha, from Byzantine Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs, “the founder of the tribe/family”), from Ancient Greek πατριά (patriá, “generation, ancestry, descent, tribe, family”) + -αρχης (-arkhēs, “-arch”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /pa.triˈar.ka/[1]
- Rhymes: -arka
- Hyphenation: pa‧tri‧àr‧ca
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References
    
- patriarca in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese
    
    Alternative forms
    
- patriarcha (obsolete)
Etymology
    
From Old Galician-Portuguese patriarca, patriarcha, borrowed from Late Latin patriarcha, from Byzantine Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs, “the founder of the tribe/family”), from Ancient Greek πατριά (patriá, “generation, ancestry, descent, tribe, family”) + -αρχης (-arkhēs, “-arch”).
Pronunciation
    
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.tɾiˈaʁ.kɐ/ [pa.tɾɪˈah.kɐ], (faster pronunciation) /paˈtɾjaʁ.kɐ/ [paˈtɾjah.kɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /pa.tɾiˈaɾ.kɐ/ [pa.tɾɪˈaɾ.kɐ], (faster pronunciation) /paˈtɾjaɾ.kɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /pa.tɾiˈaʁ.kɐ/ [pa.tɾɪˈaχ.kɐ], (faster pronunciation) /paˈtɾjaʁ.kɐ/ [paˈtɾjaχ.kɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.tɾiˈaɻ.ka/ [pa.tɾɪˈaɻ.ka], (faster pronunciation) /paˈtɾjaɻ.ka/
 
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐ.tɾiˈaɾ.kɐ/, (faster pronunciation) /pɐˈtɾjaɾ.kɐ/
- Hyphenation: pa‧tri‧ar‧ca
Noun
    
patriarca m (plural patriarcas)
- (sociology) patriarch (male head of a community or household)
- (ecclesiastical, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism) patriarch (highest rank of bishop)
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Spanish
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Late Latin patriarcha, from Byzantine Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs, “the founder of the tribe/family”), from Ancient Greek πατριά (patriá, “generation, ancestry, descent, tribe, family”) + -αρχης (-arkhēs, “-arch”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /paˈtɾjaɾka/ [paˈt̪ɾjaɾ.ka]
- Rhymes: -aɾka
- Syllabification: pa‧triar‧ca
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Further reading
    
- “patriarca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014