paternity
Meaning of paternity
noun
- (especially in legal contexts) the state of being someone's father.
he refused to admit paternity of the child
- paternal origin.
his enemies made great play of the supposed dubiety of his paternity
late Middle English: from Old French paternité, from late Latin paternitas, from paternus ‘relating to a father’.
Information about paternity
- It is a name.
- The plural form of paternity is: paternities.
- Languages in which paternity is used:
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Hyphenation of paternity
pa-ter-nity
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- paternity is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
paternity synonyms
Meaning fatherhood:
Meaning authorship:
Meaning the state of being someone's father:
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