patriarca

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”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pə.tɾiˈaɾ.kə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pə.tɾiˈar.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pa.tɾiˈaɾ.ka/

patriarca m (plural patriarques)

1. patriarch

• matriarca
• patriarcal
• patriarcat

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”).

• IPA^(key): /pa.triˈar.ka/[1]
• Rhymes: -arka
• Hyphenation: pa‧tri‧àr‧ca

patriarca m (plural patriarchi)

1. patriarch

• patriarcale
• patriarcato

• patriarcha (obsolete)

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”).

• Hyphenation: pa‧tri‧ar‧ca

patriarca m (plural patriarcas)

1. (sociology) patriarch (male head of a community or household)
2. (ecclesiastical, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism) patriarch (highest rank of bishop)

• patriarcado
• patriarcal

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”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈtɾjaɾka/ [paˈt̪ɾjaɾ.ka]
• Rhymes: -aɾka
• Syllabification: pa‧triar‧ca

patriarca m (plural patriarcas)

1. patriarch

• “patriarca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014