paternus

Latin

Etymology

From pater (“father”) +‎ -nus.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	paternus	paterna	paternum		paternī	paternae	paterna
genitive	paternī	paternae	paternī		paternōrum	paternārum	paternōrum
dative	paternō	paternae	paternō		paternīs
accusative	paternum	paternam	paternum		paternōs	paternās	paterna
ablative	paternō	paternā	paternō		paternīs
vocative	paterne	paterna	paternum		paternī	paternae	paterna

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• paternālis
• paternē
• paternitās

Related terms

• pater
• paterfamiliās
• 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: 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.
  • 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