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Latin
Etymology
From pater (“father”) + -nus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
paternus (feminine paterna, neuter paternum); first/second-declension adjective
- Of or pertaining to a father, paternal, fatherly.
- Related through the father, or his side of the family, paternal.
- Of or pertaining to one's forefathers, ancestral.
- Of or connected with one's origin or birthplace, native.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Synonyms
- (of or pertaining to a father): paternālis
- (of or pertaining to one's forefathers, ancestral): avītus
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References
- “paternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “paternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- paternus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- disinherited: exheres paternorum bonorum (De Or. 1. 38. 175)
- “paternus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “paternus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray