- paternity
[paternity 词源字典]
- paternity: see patron
[paternity etymology, paternity origin, 英语词源] - paternity (n.)
- mid-15c., "condition of being a father," from Old French paternité (12c.), from Late Latin paternitatem (nominative paternitas) "fatherly care, fatherhood," from Latin paternus "of a father," from pater (see father (n.)). Originally in the ecclesiastical sense; literal sense first recorded 1580s. Meaning "paternal origin" is from 1868.