Paternal
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late Middle English: from late Latin paternalis, from Latin paternus ‘fatherly, belonging to a father’, from pater ‘father’.
wiktionary
From Old French paternal(“of a father”) (12c.), a learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin paternālis(“paternal”), from Classical Latin paternus(“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”), from pater(“father”).
etymonline
paternal (adj.)
early 15c., "of or pertaining to a father," from Old French paternal "of a father" (12c.), from Medieval Latin paternalis, from Latin paternus "of a father, fatherly," from pater (see father (n.)). By c. 1600 as "proper to or characteristic of a father; from 1610s as "inherited from a father."
