Paternal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 333 anagrams from letters in paternal (aaelnprt).
1400-50; late Middle English Late Latin paternālis, equivalent to Latin patern(us) paternal (pater father + -nus adj. suffix) + -ālis -al
Thus, like Michael Corleone, Abel is a man living with a paternal figure looming over his life.
Barrett had chanced to place a paternal hand on her head as he passed the microphone to the student next to her.
Do you watch over their conduct with a vigilant and paternal eye?
The older brother, Henry McCollum, had come to embrace the real killer as a paternal figure.
He gazes at me, as if he were about to utter a word of paternal advice.
His paternal grandfather and his father both served in the Air Force.
It is least accepted when it is cold, challenging, and hierarchical: in other words, paternal - or in other other words, military.
He spoke with a sort of almost tender and paternal gentleness.
He has none but what is received from royal and paternal munificence and bounty.
I demurred—I had got the paternal injunction to remain with the horse and cart.
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