paternitas
Latin
Etymology
From paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”) + -tās, from pater (“father”).
Noun
paternitās f (genitive paternitātis); third declension
- (Late Latin) fatherly feeling or care; fatherhood, paternity
- (Late Latin) parental descent from the father's side
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | paternitās | paternitātēs |
Genitive | paternitātis | paternitātum |
Dative | paternitātī | paternitātibus |
Accusative | paternitātem | paternitātēs |
Ablative | paternitāte | paternitātibus |
Vocative | paternitās | paternitātēs |
Related terms
- pater
- paterfamiliās
- paternālis
- paternē
- paternus
- patraster
- patria
- patricē
- patricīda
- patricius
- patricus
- patriē
- patrimōniālis
- patrimōniolum
- patrimōnium
- patrīmus
- patrītus
- patrium
- patrius
- patrōcinālis
- patrōcinātus
- patrōcinium
- patrōcinor
- patrōna
- patrōnālis
- patrōnātus
- patrōnus
- patruēlis
- patruus
Descendants
- Catalan: paternitat
- English: paternity
- French: paternité
- Italian: paternità
- Portuguese: paternidade
- Spanish: paternidad
References
- “paternitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- paternitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- paternitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette