paternity
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English
Etymology
From Middle French paternité, from Old French, from Latin paternitās (“paternity”), from paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”) + -itās, from pater (“father”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pəˈtɜː(ɹ)nɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
paternity (countable and uncountable, plural paternities)
- Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
- Parental descent from a father.
- (law) Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
- (figuratively) Authorship.
- The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page.
Related terms
Translations
fatherhood — see fatherhood
parental descent from father's side
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