Paternal

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family; as, "paternal grandfather" (one's father's father).
 * 2) Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
 * 3) Received or inherited from one's father.
 * 4) Acting as a father; as in "paternal filicide" (murder of a son committed by his father).

Derived terms

 * paternalism
 * paternalistic
 * paternally
 * paternal aunt
 * paternal cousin
 * paternal filicide
 * paternal grandfather
 * paternal grandmother
 * paternal uncle

Antonyms

 * maternal – mother

Coordinate terms

 * avuncular – uncle
 * maternal – mother
 * materteral – aunt

Adverbs for Paternal
kindly; generously; indulgently; fondly; graciously; proudly; awkwardly; considerately; liberally; clumsily; benevolently; amiably; genially; complacently; complaisantly; tenderly; humanely; benignantly; ad monishingly; warningly; pompously; noisily; actively; virtuously; hilariously; autocratically; domineeringly; absurdly; amusingly; happily.

Thesaurus
adoring, affectionate, ancestorial, ancestral, concerned, conjugal, demonstrative, devoted, faithful, fatherlike, fatherly, filial, fond, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, grandparental, husbandly, indulgent, kindly, languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, melting, mother, motherlike, motherly, parent, parental, patriarchal, patrilateral, patrilineal, patrilinear, patrimonial, romantic, sentimental, soft, solicitous, tender, uxorious, wifely

Etymology
From paternal: (12c.), a learned borrowing from  paternalis:, from Classical  paternus:, from pater:.

Translations

 * Arabic: أبوي
 * Armenian: հայրական,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 父親的, 父亲的,  父系,  母系
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Japanese: 父性, 父方の
 * Latin: ,
 * Polish: ojcowski
 * Russian: отцовский, отеческий
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian: հայրական
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Latin:
 * Russian: отцовский, отеческий
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian: հայրական,
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: van vaderskant
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Russian: отцовский


 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Russian: отцовский


 * : föðurlegur, föðurleg , föðurlegt , föður-
 * : paterno, paterna , paterni , paterne


 * Hangul: 아버지
 * Romaja: abeoji
 * Romaja: abeoji

Anagrams

 * parental
 * prenatal

Adjective

 * 1) paternal