paternity

noun

Etymology: From Middle French paternité, from Old French, from Latin paternitās (“paternity”), from paternus (“of or pertaining to a father, paternal”) + -itās, from pater (“father”).

1. Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
2. Parental descent from a father.
3. Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
4. Authorship.

   “The author asserted her right to paternity on the book's copyright page.”