paternus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr

Proto-Italic *patēr

Latin pater

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Latin -nus

Latin paternus

From pater (“father”) + -nus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paˈtɛr.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [paˈtɛr.nus]

Adjective

paternus (feminine paterna, neuter paternum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to a father, paternal, fatherly

   Synonyms: patrius, paternālis (Medieval Latin)

   Coordinate terms: māternus, mātrālis, māternālis (Medieval Latin)

2. related through the father, or his side of the family, paternal
3. of or pertaining to one's forefathers, ancestral

   Synonym: avītus

4. of or connected with one's origin or birthplace, native

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	paternus	paterna	paternum		paternī	paternae	paterna
genitive	paternī	paternae	paternī		paternōrum	paternārum	paternōrum
dative	paternō	paternae	paternō		paternīs
accusative	paternum	paternam	paternum		paternōs	paternās	paterna
ablative	paternō	paternā	paternō		paternīs
vocative	paterne	paterna	paternum		paternī	paternae	paterna

Derived terms

• paternālis
• paternē
• paternitās

Related terms

• pater
• paterfamiliās
• patraster
• patria
• patricē
• patricīda
• patricius
• patricus
• patriē
• patrimōniālis
• patrimōniolum
• patrimōnium
• patrīmus
• patrītus
• patrium
• patrius
• patrōcinālis
• patrōcinātus
• patrōcinium
• patrōcinor
• patrōna
• patrōnālis
• patrōnātus
• patrōnus
• patruēlis
• patruus

Descendants

• → Catalan: patern
• Galician: Paderne (place name)
• → Galician: paterno
• Italian: paterno
• → Portuguese: paterno
• → Romanian: patern
• → Spanish: paterno

References

• “paternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “paternus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • disinherited: exheres paternorum bonorum (De Or. 1. 38. 175)
    
• “paternus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “paternus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray