paternal
adjective
[ pəˈtəːn(ə)l ]
• of or appropriate to a father.
• "he reasserted his paternal authority"
Similar:
on one's father's side,
patrilineal,
patrimonial,
• related through the father.
• "his father and paternal grandfather were porcelain painters"
Origin:
late Middle English: from late Latin paternalis, from Latin paternus ‘fatherly, belonging to a father’, from pater ‘father’.
