patriarche
French, noun/pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ/
patriarche is spelled P-A-T-R-I-A-R-C-H-E (10 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written French, the 12,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Patriarche is a French masculine noun meaning “patriarch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom donné à plusieurs personnages de l’Ancien Testament, ayant vécu fort longtemps et ayant connu une longue…”.
What does patriarche mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepatriarch
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom donné à plusieurs personnages de l’Ancien Testament, ayant vécu fort longtemps et ayant connu une longue postérité. 2. Vieillard qui vit au milieu d’une famille nombreuse. 3. Titre de dignité donné à certains évêques métropolitains. 4. Celui qui a institué certains ordres religieux, comme saint Basile, saint Benoît, etc.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of patriarche
- patriarches plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce patriarche?
- /pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ/
- \pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to patriarche
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is patriarche in French?
patriarche appears 4.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).