paternal
Meaning of paternal
- of or appropriate to a father.
he reasserted his paternal authority
- related through the father.
his father and paternal grandfather were porcelain painters
late Middle English: from late Latin paternalis, from Latin paternus ‘fatherly, belonging to a father’, from pater ‘father’.
Information about paternal
- It is an adjective.
- Languages in which paternal is used:
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Catalan
GalicianHyphenation of paternal
pa-ter-nal
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- paternal is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
paternal synonyms
Meaning parental:
Meaning agnate:
Meaning relating to or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line:
paternal antonyms
Meaning relating to a mother, especially during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth:
Translation of paternal
Anagrams of paternal
parental, parlante, perlatan, plantare, prenatal
Words that rhyme with paternal
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