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語源

From Old French paternal (“of a father”) (12c.), a learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin paternālis (“paternal”), from Classical Latin paternus (“of または pertaining to a father, paternal”), from pater (“father”).

発音

• enPR: pə-tû(r)'nəl, IPA^(key): /pəˈtɜː(ɹ)nəl/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl

形容詞

paternal (comparative more paternal, superlative most paternal)

1. Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.

   paternal grandfather

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Different Views of Youth and Age”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 93:

     It was with a natural touch of pride that Norbourne Courtenaye paced his paternal hall, while waiting for his uncle, with whom he was going to ride.

2. Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
3. Received or inherited from one's father.
   • a. 1701 (date written)​, John Dryden, “The Second Epode of Horace”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 477:

     Thus, ere the ſeeds of vice were ſown, / Liv'd men in better ages born, / Who plow'd with oxen of their own / Their ſmall paternal field of corn.

4. Acting as a father.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

反意語

• maternal – mother

等位語

• avuncular – uncle
• maternal – mother
• materteral – aunt

派生語

アナグラム

• parental, prenatal