Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

patrimonial

 
Dictionary: Pat·ri·mo·ni·al

a.

[L. patrimonialis: cf. F. patrimonial.]
Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate.


Search unanswered questions...
Enter a question here...
Search: All sources Community Q&A Reference topics
Thesaurus: patrimonial
Top

adjective

    Of or from one's ancestors: ancestral, hereditary, inherited. See kin, precede/follow.

WordNet: patrimonial
Top
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
  Synonyms: ancestral, hereditary, transmissible


 
 
Learn More
Stubenberg (art)
patrimony
hereditary

Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

 

Copyrights:

Dictionary. Webster 1913 Dictionary edited by Patrick J. Cassidy  Read more
Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.  Read more

 

Mentioned in