patrilinear

1. 1.

   based on or tracing descent through the male line

   “a patrilineal society”

   Synonymspatrilineal

   Similarlineal

Questions about patrilinear

What does patrilinear mean?

patrilinear means "based on or tracing descent through the male line".

How many syllables are in patrilinear?

patrilinear has 5 syllables and divides as pa-tri-li-ne-ar under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for patrilinear?

Close synonyms include patrilineal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.