He's my father's father. He's my paternal grandpa.
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Paternal
/pəˈtɜː.nəl/
Synonyms for "paternal" (58 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Verb(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (29)
Related word relations
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More general
4 entriesMore specific
5 entriesCollocations
6 entriespaternal authoritypaternal carepaternal genomepaternal inheritancepaternal investmentpaternal line
Inflections
2 entriesmore paternalmost paternal
Derivations
4 entriesAntonyms
1 entriessimilar
5 entriesTranslations
54 translations across 37 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πατρικός adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Arabic
1 entries- أَبَوِيّ adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Armenian
2 entries- հայրական adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- հայրենի adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Belarusian
4 entries- айцо́ўскі adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- ба́цькаў adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- ба́цькаўскі adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- бацько́ўскі adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Bulgarian
2 entries- ба́щин adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- ба́щински adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Catalan
1 entries- patern adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 母系 adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- 父系 adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- 父親的 /父亲的 adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Czech
1 entries- otcovský adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Danish
1 entries- faderlig adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Dutch
1 entries- vaderlijk adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Finnish
1 entries- isänpuoleinen adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
French
1 entries- paternel adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
German
1 entries- väterlich adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Greek
1 entries- πατρικός adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Hindi
1 entries- पैतृक adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Hungarian
2 entries- apai adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- atyai adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Italian
1 entries- paterno adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Japanese
2 entries- 父性 adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- 父方の adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Latin
2 entries- paternus adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- paternālis adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Lithuanian
1 entries- tėvinis adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Macedonian
1 entries- татковски adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- faderlig adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Old English
1 entries- fæderen adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- پدری adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Persian
1 entries- پدری adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Polish
1 entries- ojcowski adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Portuguese
1 entries- paterno adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Romanian
1 entries- patern adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Russian
2 entries- оте́ческий adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- отцо́вский adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- taobh athar adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- òčev adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- ȍčīnskī adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- о̀чев adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- о̏чӣнскӣ adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Slovak
1 entries- otcovský adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Slovene
1 entries- očetovski adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Spanish
1 entries- paterno adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Swedish
1 entries- faderlig adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Tajik
1 entries- падарӣ adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ба́тьків adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- ба́тьківський adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- оте́цький adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
- отце́вий adj (of or pertaining to one's father)
Sample sentences
24 total sentences available.
She is my father's mother. She is my paternal grandmother.
Source: tatoeba (3154977)
My paternal grandmother enjoys tea ceremonies.
Source: tatoeba (4201930)
Tom's paternal grandparents live in Australia.
Source: tatoeba (4500700)
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