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paternitas
paternitas
Latin
Noun
paternitās f (genitive paternitātis); third declension
- (Late Latin) fatherly feeling or care; fatherhood, paternity
- (Late Latin) parental descent from the father's side
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | paternitās | paternitātēs |
| genitive | paternitātis | paternitātum |
| dative | paternitātī | paternitātibus |
| accusative | paternitātem | paternitātēs |
| ablative | paternitāte | paternitātibus |
| vocative | paternitās | paternitātēs |
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References
- paternitas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- PATERNITAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “paternitas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.