[pəˈtəːnl], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- of or appropriate to a father
(e.g: he reasserted his paternal authority)

- related through the father
(e.g: his father and paternal grandfather were porcelain painters)


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Origin:
late Middle English: from late Latin paternalis, from Latin paternus ‘fatherly, belonging to a father’, from pater ‘father’