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paternis

paternis is a Latin form of paternus, meaning “father's, paternal; ancestral”. It is the ablative plural feminine adjective or ablative plural masculine adjective.

Found 72 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 15: … it; nam patrimonium domestici praedones vi ereptum possident, fama et vita innocentis ab hospitibus amicisque paternis defenditur.

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.