English > patrimonial: 1 sense > adjective 1Meaning | inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent. |
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Example | "patrimonial estate" |
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Synonyms | ancestral, hereditary, transmissible |
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Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
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Broader | inheritable, heritable | Capable of being inherited |
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Spanish | ancestral, hereditario, patrimonial, transmisible |
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Catalan | ancestral, hereditari, patrimonial, transmissible |
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Nouns | patrimony | an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) |
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