herile

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to a master, especially a master's authority over servants or enslaved people

   The translator calls the master's authority within the household herile rather than political.

A rare learned borrowing from Latin erīlis or herīlis, 'of a master,' from erus or herus, 'master.' English political writers used it chiefly when discussing the authority of a master within a household.

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