paternus

== Latin == === Etymology === From pater (“father”) + -nus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [paˈtɛr.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [paˈtɛr.nus] === Adjective === paternus (feminine paterna, neuter paternum); first/second-declension adjective of or pertaining to a father, paternal, fatherly Synonyms: patrius, paternālis (Medieval Latin) Coordinate terms: māternus, mātrālis, māternālis (Medieval Latin) related through the father, or his side of the family, paternal of or pertaining to one's forefathers, ancestral Synonym: avītus of or connected with one's origin or birthplace, native ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== paternālis paternē paternitās ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: patern Galician: Paderne (place name) → Galician: paterno Italian: paterno → Portuguese: paterno → Romanian: patern → Spanish: paterno === 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “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