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paterni

paterni is a Latin form of paternus, meaning “father's, paternal; ancestral”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective or genitive singular neuter adjective or genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 60 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Murena 56: … mpluris protulit, simultatis nullam commemorare potuit. accusat Ser. Sulpicius, sodalis filius, cuius ingenio paterni omnes necessarii munitiores esse debebant. accusat M.Marcus Cato qui cum a Murena nulla re umquam alienus fui …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.327: HIC SITUS EST PHAETHON, CURRUS AURIGA PATERNI:

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.