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noun, feminine

paternité

/pa.tɛʁ.ni.te/

noun, feminine/pa.tɛʁ.ni.te/plural: paternités

fatherhood; authorship

congé de paternité

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin paternitātem (“paternity, fatherhood”), from paternus (“relating to a father, paternal”) + -itās, from pater (“father”).

paternité — French Dictionary | Passage