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Definition of Materfamilias
1. Noun. A female head of a family or tribe.
Definition of Materfamilias
1. Noun. The female head of a household ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Materfamilias
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Materfamilias
Literary usage of Materfamilias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by William Warde Fowler (1909)
"Beyond doubt the position of the Roman materfamilias was a much more dignified
one than that of the Greek wife. ..."
2. Gallus: Or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus by Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1844)
"The following argument only is required to get rid of these contradictions.
Gellius says the materfamilias must be in manu ..."
3. A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code by William Alexander Hunter, Gaius, John Ashton Cross (1897)
"At first, probably, materfamilias signified a wife under the monus of her ...
At a later period, materfamilias was sometimes employed a* equivalent to ..."
4. Gaii Institutionum Iuris Civilis Commentarii Quattuor: Or, Elements of Roman by Gaius, Edward Poste (1884)
"Competent interpreters of the ancient language say that materfamilias was a title
only given to a wife in the hand and mancipation of her husband, ..."
5. Gaii Institutionum Iuris Civilis Commentarii Quatuor: Or, Elements of Roman Law by Gaius, Edward Poste (1875)
"Competent interpreters of the ancient language say that materfamilias was a title
only given to a wife in the hand and mancipation of her husband, ..."
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