paternus

From pater (“father”) +‎ -nus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈter.nus/, [päˈt̪ɛrnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈter.nus/, [päˈt̪ɛrnus]

paternus (feminine paterna, neuter paternum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a father, paternal, fatherly.
2. Related through the father, or his side of the family, paternal.
3. Of or pertaining to one's forefathers, ancestral.
4. Of or connected with one's origin or birthplace, native.

First/second-declension adjective.

• (of or pertaining to a father): paternālis
• (of or pertaining to one's forefathers, ancestral): avītus

• paternālis
• paternē
• paternitās

• → Catalan: patern
• Galician: Paderne (place name)
• → Galician: paterno
• Italian: paterno
• → Portuguese: paterno
• → Romanian: patern
• → Spanish: paterno

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • disinherited: exheres paternorum bonorum (De Or. 1. 38. 175)
    
• “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