patrimonial

From patrimony +‎ -al.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpætɹɪˈməʊni.əl/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌpætɹɪˈmoʊni.əl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌpætɹɪˈməʉni.əl/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛtɹəˈmɐʉni.əl/
• Rhymes: -əʊniəl

patrimonial (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to patrimony.
2. Legally (or otherwise) inherited from one or more ancestors.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     […] Cluffe, who had had two or three sharp little visits of his patrimonial gout […]

   • 2017 [2013], Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 173:

     The general evolution is clear: bubbles aside, what we are witnessing is a strong comeback of private capital in the rich countries since 1970, or, to put it another way, the emergence of a new patrimonial capitalism.

• neopatrimonial
• patrimonialism
• patrimonially

Learned borrowing from Late Latin patrimōniālis.

• IPA^(key): /pa.tʁi.mɔ.njal/

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patrimonial (feminine patrimoniale, masculine plural patrimoniaux, feminine plural patrimoniales)

1. patrimonial

• patrimoine

• matrimonial

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

Borrowed from Dutch patrimoniaal.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /patrimoˈnial/ [pat̪̚.ri.moˈni.al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pat‧ri‧mo‧ni‧al

patrimonial (comparative lebih patrimonial, superlative paling patrimonial)

1. patrimonial

• “patrimonial”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• Hyphenation: pa‧tri‧mo‧ni‧al

patrimonial m or f (plural patrimoniais)

1. patrimonial

• “patrimonial”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “patrimonial”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French patrimonial. By surface analysis, patrimoniu +‎ -al.

patrimonial m or n (feminine singular patrimonială, masculine plural patrimoniali, feminine/neuter plural patrimoniale)

1. patrimonial

• IPA^(key): /patɾimoˈnjal/ [pa.t̪ɾi.moˈnjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pa‧tri‧mo‧nial

patrimonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural patrimoniales)

1. patrimonial, hereditary

   Synonyms: familiar, hereditario

2. heritage (e.g. heritage site or building, heritage value)
3. (linguistics) inherited

• “patrimonial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025