matrilocal
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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌmæ.tɹɪˈləʊ.kəl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌmæ.tɹɪˈloʊ.kəl/, /ˌmæ.tɹəˈloʊ.kəl/
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Adjective[edit]
matrilocal (not comparable)
- (of a married couple) Living with the family of the wife; uxorilocal.
- (anthropology, of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the wife's family.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:
- In barring the way, he is enacting a ritual which demands that the new way of patrilocal marriage pay its respect to the more ancient way of matrilocal marriage.
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
matrilocal (feminine matrilocale, masculine plural matrilocaux, feminine plural matrilocales)
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Further reading[edit]
- “matrilocal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish[edit]
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matrilocal m or f (masculine and feminine plural matrilocales)
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