paternity.
Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
Meaning & usage
Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
Parental descent from a father.
Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
Authorship.
The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French paternité, from Old French, from Latin paternitās (“paternity”), from paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”) + -itās, from pater (“father”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.