Synonyms for paternity
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : puh-tur-ni-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : pəˈtɜr nɪ ti |
Top 10 synonyms for paternity Other synonyms for the word paternity
- authorship
- begetter
- beginnings
- birthplace
- blood
- commencement
- connection
- dawn
- dawning
- derivation
- determinant
- extraction
- father
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- horse's mouth
- inception
- informant
- maternity
- mother
- onset
- opening
- origination
- originator
- parent
- parentage
- paternity
- pedigree
- provenance
- provenience
- rise
- rising
- root
- specialist
- spring
- start
- starting point
- stock
- wellspring
Définition of paternity
Origin :- mid-15c., "condition of being a father," from Old French paternité (12c.), from Late Latin paternitatem (nominative paternitas) "fatherly care, fatherhood," from Latin paternus "of a father," from pater (see father (n.)). Originally in the ecclesiastical sense; literal sense first recorded 1580s. Meaning "paternal origin" is from 1868.
- As in origin : noun family, heritage
- As in source : noun beginning; point of supply
- One got paternity last year already, and he is not as good a man as I am.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- I won my paternity right, when I was but twenty-eight, just about your age.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- Though all the world forget, your paternity should remember me.
- Extract from : « The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series » by Rafael Sabatini
- Hence they are of one paternity, though not of one maternity.
- Extract from : « Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 » by Various
- A man can no more create a paternity than he can make a new planet.
- Extract from : « Nuts and Nutcrackers » by Charles James Lever
- Her family had place and power; her paternity was undisputed; but this Louis––tah!
- Extract from : « The Bondwoman » by Marah Ellis Ryan
- And has an incontrovertible opinion been formed as to the paternity of this tract?
- Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 » by Various
- With these enactments too came evidence of the Kirk's paternity.
- Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro
- Where paternity is established the father is liable for support (or alimony).
- Extract from : « Women's Wild Oats » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
- I acknowledge you the author of the idea, and renounce all right to its paternity.
- Extract from : « The Queen's Necklace » by Alexandre Dumas pre
Antonyms for paternity
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