patriarchia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πατριαρχία (patriarkhía), from πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pa.triˈar.kʰi.a/, [pät̪riˈärkʰiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.triˈar.ki.a/, [pät̪riˈärkiä]

Noun

patriarchia f (genitive patriarchiae); first declension

(Medieval Latin, Christianity)

1. patriarchate (the dignity of a patriarch)
2. a patriarchal church (each of the five great basilicae of Rome)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	patriarchia	patriarchiae
Genitive	patriarchiae	patriarchiārum
Dative	patriarchiae	patriarchiīs
Accusative	patriarchiam	patriarchiās
Ablative	patriarchiā	patriarchiīs
Vocative	patriarchia	patriarchiae

Synonyms

• (patriarchate, the dignity of a patriarch): patriarchātus
• (patriarchal church): patriarchālis

Descendants

• English: patriarchy

References

• Patriarchiæ in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “patriarchia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 774/1