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paternity

noun
/pəˈtɜːnɪti/UK/pəˈtɜɹnəti/US

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”).

  1. derived from paternitās — “paternity”
  2. derived from paternité

Definitions

  1. Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.

  2. Parental descent from a father.

  3. Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Authorship.

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

The neighborhood

Derived

grandpaternity, heteropaternity, nonpaternity, paternity leave, paternity suit, paternity test, primipaternity

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at paternity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at paternity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at paternity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA