English Explanatory Dictionary

paternal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.
  2. Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
  3. Received or inherited from one's father.
  4. Acting as a father.
noun
  1. A person related through the father, or his side of the family; a paternal relative.

Pronunciation

/pəˈtɜː.nəl/ /pəˈtɜɹ.nəl/ en-us-paternal.ogg

Word forms

paternal more paternal most paternal paternall paternals

Etymology

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

Derived words

allopaternal antipaternal bipaternal grandpaternal heteropaternal homopaternal monopaternal nonpaternal paternal aunt paternal cousin paternal custody paternal grandchild paternal grandfather paternal grandmother paternal half aunt paternal half-uncle paternalise paternalism paternalist paternalistic paternalization paternalize paternally paternalness paternal orphan paternal uncle unpaternal

Translations

Arabic: أَبَوِيّ Armenian: հայրական Armenian: հայրենի Belarusian: ба́цькаўскі Belarusian: бацько́ўскі Belarusian: ба́цькаў Belarusian: айцо́ўскі Bulgarian: ба́щин Bulgarian: ба́щински Catalan: patern Chinese Mandarin: 父親的 /父亲的 Chinese Mandarin: 父系 Chinese Mandarin: 母系 Czech: otcovský Danish: faderlig Dutch: vaderlijk Finnish: isänpuoleinen French: paternel German: väterlich Greek: πατρικός Ancient Greek: πατρικός Hindi: पैतृक Hungarian: apai Hungarian: atyai Italian: paterno Japanese: 父性 Japanese: 父方の Latin: paternālis Latin: paternus Lithuanian: tėvinis Macedonian: татковски Norwegian Bokmål: faderlig Old English: fæderen Persian: پدری Polish: ojcowski Portuguese: paterno Romanian: patern Russian: отцо́вский Russian: оте́ческий Scottish Gaelic: taobh athar Serbo-Croatian: о̏чӣнскӣ Serbo-Croatian: о̀чев Serbo-Croatian: ȍčīnskī Serbo-Croatian: òčev Slovak: otcovský Slovene: očetovski Spanish: paterno Swedish: faderlig Tajik: падарӣ Ottoman Turkish: پدری Ukrainian: ба́тьківський Ukrainian: оте́цький Ukrainian: ба́тьків Ukrainian: отце́вий
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