patern

Learned borrowing from Latin paternus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈtɛrn]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paˈtɛɾn]

patern (feminine paterna, masculine plural paterns, feminine plural paternes)

1. paternal
2. parental

• paternal

• pare
• paternitat
• patri

• “patern”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From English pattern, from earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”).

• Hyphenation: pa‧tern

patern

1. a pattern

Borrowed from French paterne, from Latin paternus.

patern m or n (feminine singular paternă, masculine plural paterni, feminine and neuter plural paterne)

1. paternal

• paternitate