paternal

Etymology
From (12c.), a learned borrowing from, from Classical , from.

Adjective

 * 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.
 * 1) Received or inherited from one's father.
 * 2) Acting as a father.
 * 1) Acting as a father.

Antonyms

 * – mother

Coordinate terms

 * – uncle
 * – mother
 * – aunt

Translations

 * Arabic: أَبَوِيّ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: ба́цькаўскі, бацько́ўскі, ба́цькаў, айцо́ўскі
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: faderlig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: isänpuoleinen
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πατρικός
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin: paternālis, paternus
 * Lithuanian: tėvinis
 * Macedonian: татковски
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: faderlig
 * Old English: fæderen
 * Ottoman Turkish: پدری
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: taobh athar
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏чӣнскӣ, о̀чев
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: otcovský
 * Slovene: očetovski
 * Spanish: paterno
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: падарӣ
 * Ukrainian:, оте́цький, , отце́вий


 * Arabic: أَبَوِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: ба́цькаўскі, бацько́ўскі, айцо́ўскі
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Latin: paternus
 * Lithuanian: tėviškas
 * Macedonian: татковски
 * Ottoman Turkish: پدری
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏чӣнскӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: otcovský
 * Slovene: očetovski
 * Spanish:
 * Tajik:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, оте́цький, отце́вий


 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: van vaderskant,
 * Finnish: isänpuoleinen
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Latin: paternus
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏чӣнскӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: otcovský
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: isän tekemä
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:


 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian:
 * Korean:

Etymology
Borrowed from. Compare the descended term.

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) fatherly

Adjective

 * , fatherly