Quizlet pater/patris

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  1. forbear: to keep from doing something by using patience
  2. histrionic: overly dramatic
  3. milieu: your enviroment or your surroundings
  4. pater/patris: father
  5. patriarch(archos): chief father of a family or of a society
  6. patrician: nobly born person; descendant of the founding fathers of Rome
  7. patrimony(monia): a condition or 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: to give financial support to something; to belittle
  11. patronymic(onyma): a father's name adapted and given to his children (ireland is O' Sweden is Peter Scotland is Mac)