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paterna

paterna is a Latin form of paternus, meaning “father's, paternal; ancestral”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 89 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 34: … triumphantem ab inimico tribuno plebei de curru detrahi passa non est? cur te fraterna vitia potius quam bona paterna et avita et usque a nobis cum in viris tum etiam in feminis repetita moverunt? ideone ego pacem Pyrrhi diremi …

Martial, Epigrammata 8.72.5: Docti Narbo Paterna Votieni,

All forms of paternus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.