paternal

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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.

Συνώνυμα

fatherly

parental

ancestral

maternal

agnate

aunt

agnatic

parents’

paternalistic

one’s father

patrimonial

patronymic

uncle

dadlike

on the spear side

hereditary

male line

motherly

fatherlike

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/pəˈtɜː(ɹ)nəl/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

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”).