Adjective: fatherly
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fatherly |
| Superlative | most fatherly |
Adjectives inflected like fatherly
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English faderly, from Old English fæderlīċ (“fatherly, paternal”), from Proto-West Germanic *faderlīk, from Proto-Germanic *fadurlīkaz (“fatherly, paternal”), equivalent to father + -ly. Cognate with West Frisian faderlik (“fatherly”), Dutch vaderlijk (“fatherly”), German väterlich (“fatherly”), Danish faderlig (“fatherly”), Swedish faderlig (“fatherly”), Icelandic föðurlegur (“fatherly”) . Doublet of fatherlike. See: Dutch Adjectives '
vaderlijk', German Adjectives '
väterlich', Swedish Adjectives '
faderlig'.
Verbs referencing "fatherly"
German Adjectives
väterlich, Dutch Adjectives
vaderlijk.