| Concept: | Paternity. |
| Category: | 3. POWER IN OPERATION |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
paternity; parentage; consanguinity., parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire, grandfather; great- grandfather; fathership, fatherhood; mabap., house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs., motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother.
-adjectives
paternal, parental; maternal; family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal.
-phrases
avi numerantur avorum; "happy he with such a mother" [Tennyson]; hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo; philosophia stemma non inspicit [Seneca].
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| Main Entry: | origin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family, heritage |
Synonyms: |
ancestry, beginnings, birth, blood, descent, extraction, lineage, maternity, parentage, paternity, pedigree, stock |
| Main Entry: | source |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; point of supply |
Synonyms: |
antecedent, author, authority, authorship, begetter, birthplace, cause, commencement, connection, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, expert, father, fount, fountain, fountainhead, horse's mouth, inception, informant, maternity, mother, onset, opening, origin, origination, originator, parent, paternity, provenance, provenience, rise, rising, root, specialist, spring, start, starting point, wellspring |
Antonyms: |
effect, end, result |