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Pronunciation:/pəˈtərnl, /
adjective
- of or appropriate to a father:he reasserted his paternal authority
- showing a kindness and care associated with a father; fatherly:my elders in the newsroom kept a paternal eye on me
- [attributive] related through the father:his father and paternal grandfather were porcelain painters
Derivatives
paternally
adverb
Origin:
late Middle English: from late Latin paternalis, from Latin paternus ‘fatherly, belonging to a father’, from pater ‘father’
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