different between paternity vs paternal

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??t??(?)n?ti/

Noun

paternity (countable and uncountable, plural paternities)

1. fatherhood, being a father
2. parental descent from a father
3. (law) legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child
4. (figuratively) authorship

Related terms

• paternity leave
• paternity suit
• paternity test

Translations

See also

• affiliation
• maternity

English

Etymology

From Old French paternal (“of a father”) (12c.), a learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin patern?lis (“paternal”), from Classical Latin paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”), from pater (“father”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?-tû(r)'n?l, IPA^(key): /p??t??(?)n?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?l

Adjective

paternal (comparative more paternal, superlative most paternal)

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

Antonyms

• maternal – mother

Coordinate terms

• avuncular – uncle
• maternal – mother
• materteral – aunt

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• parental, prenatal

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin patern?lis. Compare the descended term paternel.

Adjective

paternal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular paternale)

1. paternal

Declension

Descendants

• English: paternal

Romanian

Etymology

From French paternel

Adjective

paternal m or n (feminine singular paternal?, masculine plural paternali, feminine and neuter plural paternale)

1. fatherly

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

paternal (plural paternales)

1. paternal, fatherly