paternally

1. 1.

   in a paternal manner

   “he behaves very paternally toward his young bride”

Questions about paternally

What does paternally mean?

paternally means "in a paternal manner".

How many syllables are in paternally?

paternally has 4 syllables and divides as pa-ter-nal-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is paternally a common word?

paternally is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.