paternal

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pə-tû(r)'nəl, IPA: /pəˈtɜː(r)nəl/, X-SAMPA: /p@"t3:(r)n@l/

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Etymology

From Old French paternal (“of a father”) (12c.), a learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin paternālis (“paternal”), from Classical Latin paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”), from pater (“father”).

Adjective

paternal (comparative more paternal, superlative most paternal)

1. Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family; as, "paternal grandfather" (one's father's father).
2. Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
3. Received or inherited from one's father.
4. Acting as a father; as in "paternal filicide" (murder of a son committed by his father).

Derived terms

• paternalism
• paternalistic
• paternally
• paternal aunt
• paternal cousin
• paternal filicide
• paternal grandfather
• paternal grandmother
• paternal uncle

Antonyms

• maternal – mother

Coordinate terms

• avuncular – uncle
• maternal – mother
• materteral – aunt

Translations

of or pertaining to one's father

• Arabic: أبوي (ar) ('abawiy)
• Armenian: հայրական (hy) (hayrakan), հայրենի (hy) (hayreni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 父親的 (cmn), 父亲的 (cmn) (fùqin-de), 父系 (cmn) (fùxì), 母系 (cmn) (mǔxì)

• Czech: otcovský (cs) m
• Dutch: vaderlijk (nl)
• Finnish: isänpuoleinen (fi)
• French: paternel (fr)
• German: väterlich (de)

• Greek: πατρικός (el) (patrikós)
• Hungarian: apai (hu), atyai (hu)
• Japanese: 父性 (ja) (ふせい, fusei), 父方の (ja) (ちちかたの, chichikata-no)
• Latin: paternālis (la), paternus (la)
• Polish: ojcowski (pl)
• Romanian: patern (ro)
• Russian: отцовский (ru) (otcóvskij), отеческий (ru) (otéčeskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: taobh athar (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍčīnskī (sh), òčev (sh)
• Spanish: paterno (es)

fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father

• Armenian: հայրական (hy) (hayrakan)
• Dutch: vaderlijk (nl)
• Finnish: isällinen (fi)
• French: paternel (fr)
• Greek: πατρικός (el) (patrikós)

• Hungarian: atyai (hu)
• Latin: paternus (la)
• Russian: отцовский (ru) (otcovskij), отеческий (ru) (ot'éčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍčīnskī (sh)
• Spanish: paternal (es)

received or inherited from one's father

• Armenian: հայրական (hy) (hayrakan), հայրենի (hy) (hayreni)
• Dutch: van vaderskant
• Finnish: isänpuoleinen (fi)
• French: paternel (fr)
• Greek: πατρικός (el) (patrikós)

• Hungarian: apai (hu), atyai (hu)
• Latin: paternus (la)
• Russian: отцовский (ru) (otcovskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍčīnskī (sh)

acting as a father

• Dutch: vaderlijk (nl)
• Finnish: isän (fi) tekemä (fi)
• Greek: πατρικός (el) (patrikós)

• Hungarian: apai (hu), atyai (hu)
• Russian: отцовский (ru) (otcóvskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍčīnskī (sh)

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Translations to be checked

• Icelandic: föðurlegur, föður- m, f, and n
• Italian: paterno (it) m

• Korean: 아버지 (ko)

Anagrams

• parental, prenatal

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin paternālis. Compare the descended term paternel.

Adjective

paternal m

1. paternal

Declension

  Declension of paternal  

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	paternaus	paternale	paternal
	Oblique	paternal	paternale	paternal
Plural	Subject	paternal	paternales	paternal
	Oblique	paternaus	paternales	paternal

Descendants

• English: paternal

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Spanish

Adjective

paternal m and f (plural paternales)

1. paternal