paternal

Relating to or characteristic of a father or fatherhood; fatherly.

Received or inherited from a father.

Related through one’s father.

Of or pertaining to a father; proper to or characteristic of a father; fatherly: as, paternal care or affection; paternal favor or admonition.

Derived from the father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate.

Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father.

Received or derived from a father; hereditary.

the assumption by the governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their business and social concerns, upon the theory that they are incapable of managing their own affairs.

Of or pertaining to one’s father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family; as, “paternal grandfather” (one’s father’s father).

Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.