Quizlet Pater/Patris

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  1. Example: Ireland: Brian's son was John O' Brian
  2. forbear: using patience to keep from doing something
  3. histrionic: overly dramatic
  4. milieu: your environment or surroundings
  5. patriarch: (archos- chief)-chief father of a family or of a society
  6. patrician: (1) a person born of nobility; (2) a descendant of the following fathers of rome
  7. patrimony: (monia - condition)- an inheritance from a father, usually money or land
  8. patriotism: love for the fatherland
  9. patron: one who acts like a father toward another usually by giving financial support as a father would
  10. Patronize: (1) to give your financial support to something (2) to belittle somone
  11. patronymic: (onyma- name)- a father's name adapted and given to his childern