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patrilinéaire

French, adjective\pa.tʁi.li.ne.ɛʁ\

patrilinéaire is a French adjective meaning “patrilinear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif au système de filiation dans lequel chacun relève du lignage de son père”.

What does patrilinéaire mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    patrilinear

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

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Relatif au système de filiation dans lequel chacun relève du lignage de son père.

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 patrilinéaire

  • patrilinéaires plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce patrilinéaire?

  • \pa.tʁi.li.ne.ɛʁ\

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

How common is patrilinéaire in French?

patrilinéaire appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.

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