Paternal love is love between one and their father. I.e having a strong relationship with your father and bonding with him over thins.
Jodi Beth Hopfinger has written: 'Perceived paternal nurturance and availability for the school age and preschool age periods and intimacy value and motive in college aged males' -- subject(s): Fathers and sons, Love, Paternal, Paternal Love, Paternal deprivation
The noun form for the adjective paternal is paternity.
"Paternal" means "on your father's side". Your paternal great-grandfather would be one of your father's grandfathers.
The grandparents on the father's side of the family
A paternal niece is a niece on the fathers side. For example:my dad's sisters's daughter is my paternal niece
Fatherly would be a synonym, depending on how paternal was used.
Luke Skywalker doesn't have a paternal grandfather.
Her paternal grandparents were granted custody. His love of all children is completely paternal.
there are both paternal and maternal chromosomes, which carry maternal/paternal genes.
The father's parents are the paternal grandparents. The mother's parents are the maternal grandparents.
fraternal relates to brotherhood and paternal relates to fatherhood
"Maternal" is of or pertaining to the mother, "paternal" is of or pertaining to the father.