Roget's Thesaurus

#166. Paternity

Nouns

paternity; parentage; consanguinity etc. 11. parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire, grandfather; great-grandfather; fathership, fatherhood; mabap. house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs. motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias [Lat.], grandmother.

Adjectives

paternal, parental; maternal; family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal.

Phrases

avi numerantur avorum [Lat.]; happy he with such a mother [Tennyson]; hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo [Sp.]; philosophia stemma non inspicit [Lat.] [Seneca].