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Paternity

//pəˈtɜːnɪti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing wordnet
  3. 3
    Parental descent from a father. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the kinship relation between an offspring and the father wordnet
  5. 5
    Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the state of being a father wordnet
  2. 7
    Authorship. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page."

Etymology

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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