The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄρχω“to rule”
- Latin · derived frommāter“mother”
- English todaymatriarchy
Coined after patriarchy, from Latin māter (“mother”) and Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”). By surface analysis, matri- + -archy.
Words from the same roots
Latinmāter all →
matermatriarchmadreporematri-matroclinousphycomater
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.