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Definitions
a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line
Word origin
Coined after patriarchy, from Latin māter (“mother”) and Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”). By surface analysis, matri- + -archy.
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