m 3 a 1 t 1 r 1 i 1 a 1 r 1 c 3 h 4 y 4
10 letters · 20 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line
originCoined after patriarchy, from Latin māter (“mother”) and Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”). By surface analysis, matri- + -archy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- arythmic 18
- myrrhic 17
- matriarch 16
- arythmia 16
- triarchy 16
- mythic 16
- thymic 16
- armchair 15
- charity 15
- cyathia 15
- cymatia 14
- charry 14