paternal

The story

1. Latin · derived frompaternus“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”
2. Vulgar Latin · derived frompaternālis“paternal”
3. Old French · derived frompaternal“of a father”
4. English todaypaternal

From Old French paternal (“of a father”) (12th c.), from Vulgar Latin paternālis (“paternal”), from Latin paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”), from pater (“father”).