paternity

Roget category 166

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.8. Causation
›› 1.8.3. Power in operation

#166. Paternity

noun

paternity — parentage — consanguinity etc. 11.
parent — father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba^† — genitor, progenitor, procreator — ancestor — grandsire^†, grandfather — great-grandfather — fathership^†, fatherhood — mabap^†.
house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan — genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry — forefathers, forbears, patriarchs.
motherhood, maternity — mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias [Lat.], grandmother.

adjective

paternal, parental — maternal — family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal.

phrase

avi numerantur avorum [Lat.] — happy he with such a mother" [Tennyson]; hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo [Sp.] — philosophia stemma non inspicit [Lat.] [Seneca].

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