(finance) A preliminary prospectus, relating to a proposed company flotation, that does not state the expected price of shares.

A formalism for a physical theory which is based upon Feynman path integrals.

A man who is the head of a household, family or tribe.

Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. / Relating to a system run by males, rather than females; relating to a patriarchy.

Alternative spelling of paterfamilias

An expert in pathology; a specialist who examines samples of body tissues for diagnostic or forensic purpose.

The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them.

fatherhood, being a father / parental descent from a father / (law) legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child / (figuratively) authorship

(anthropology, history) A social system in which the father is head of the household, having authority over women and children, and in which lineage is traced through the male line.

(pathology) clinical chemistry.