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paternité

French, noun/pa.tɛʁ.ni.te/

paternité is spelled P-A-T-E-R-N-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written French, the 13,759th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Paternité is a French feminine noun meaning “fatherhood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État, qualité ou statut de père”.

What does paternité mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininefatherhood

    congé de paternité

  2. 2

    feminineauthorship

    Je revendique la paternité de ce terme.

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. État, qualité ou statut de père. 2. Qualité d’auteur, de créateur, exprimée en reconnaissance que la personne est à l’origine de quelque chose. 3. Titre d’adresse déférent donné au pape, aux pères abbés, aux prêtres, aux confesseurs.

noun: 1. Représentation de la Trinité selon certaines conventions (voir citation ci-dessous).

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of paternité

  • paternités plural
  • Paternités plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce paternité?

  • /pa.tɛʁ.ni.te/
  • \pa.tɛʁ.ni.te\
  • [patɛʁnite]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to paternité

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is paternité in French?

paternité appears 3.7 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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