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patriarcado

Spanish, noun/patɾjaɾˈkado/

patriarcado is spelled P-A-T-R-I-A-R-C-A-D-O (11 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 16,777th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Patriarcado is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “patriarchy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sistema social en el que el padre es jefe de familia y tiene autoridad sobre las mujeres y los niños”.

What does patriarcado mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepatriarchy

  2. 2

    masculinepatriarchate

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Sistema social en el que el padre es jefe de familia y tiene autoridad sobre las mujeres y los niños. 2. Sistema de gobierno de los varones. 3. Predominio de los hombres en los sistemas sociales o culturales. 4. Oficio y autoridad de un patriarca.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of patriarcado

  • patriarcados plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce patriarcado?

  • /patɾjaɾˈkado/
  • [pa.t̪ɾjaɾˈka.ð̞o]
  • [pat̪ɾjaɾˈkað̞o]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to patriarcado

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is patriarcado in Spanish?

patriarcado appears 3.1 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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