paternity

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
2. (countable, uncountable) Parental descent from a father.
3. (countable, uncountable) Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Authorship.

Synonyms

fatherhood

origin

authorship

descent

originate

parentage

parenthood

patriarchal

place of origin

provenance

provenience

sires

source

fathers

male parents

paternal effects

patrilineage

affiliation

paternal line

come from

derivation

Translations

paternité

Vaterschaft

paternidad

paternità

paternidade

πατρότητα

kaynak

vaderschap

paternitās

Väterlichkeit

πατρότης

männlicher Elter

Vater

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/pəˈtɜː(ɹ)nɪti/

Etymology

From Middle French paternité, from Old French, from Latin paternitās (“paternity”), from paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”) + -itās, from pater (“father”).