patrilocal

From patri- +‎ local.

patrilocal (not comparable)

1. (of a married couple) living with the family of the husband.
2. (anthropology, of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the husband'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.

• virilocal

• matrilocal, uxorilocal
• neolocal
• duolocal

• allopatric

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patrilocal (feminine patrilocale, masculine plural patrilocaux, feminine plural patrilocales)

1. patrilocal

• “patrilocal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French patrilocal.

patrilocal m or n (feminine singular patrilocală, masculine plural patrilocali, feminine and neuter plural patrilocale)

1. patrilocal