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parens

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parens

  1. plural of paren

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Noun

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parens m

  1. (archaic) plural of parent

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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    From an old form of the present participle of the verb pariō (“I bring forth, I give birth to, I produce”).[1][2] Compare the regular present participle pariēns.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    parēns m or f (genitive parentis); third declension

    1. parent, mother, father
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.365–366:
        “Nec tibi dīva parēns, generis nec Dardanus auctor, / perfide! [...].”
        [Dido to Aeneas:] “No goddess was your mother, nor was Dardanus the founder of your line, [you] liar! [...].”
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.57–58:
        ille suōs semper Venerem Mārtemque parentēs
        dīxit et ēmeruit vōcis habēre fidem
        He always said that Venus and Mars were his parents,
        and he deserved to have the credit for his assertion.
        Or: [...] he deserved to have his word trusted; [...] to be believed; [...] to be ‘‘taken at his word’’
        (See Quirinus as the deified Romulus.)
    2. founder, ancestor
      • a. 27 BC, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina, Book VIII, Chapter XXXVII.66
        Quæ si esset in analogia, negant ullum casum duobus modis debuisse dici; quod fit contra...Nam sine reprehensione vulgo alii dicunt in singulari hac ovi et avi, alii hac ove et ave; in multitudinis hæ puppis restis et hæ puppes restes; item quod in patrico casu hoc genus dispariliter dicuntur civitatum parentum et civitatium parentium, in accusandi hos montes fontes et hos montis fontis.
        If regularity existed, they say, no case ought to be used in two forms; but the opposite is found to occur...For without censure quite commonly some say in the ablative singular ovi ('sheep') and avi ('bird'); others say ove and ave; in the plural, the nominative puppis ('ship's sterns') and restis ('ropes'), also puppes and restes; likewise there is the fact that in the genitive plural of words of this class are used the variant forms civitatum ('of states'), parentum ('of parents'), and civitatium, parentium ('of parents'), and in the accusative plural montes ('mountains'), fontes ('springs'), and montis, fontis.
    Declension
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    Third declension noun (mixed i-stem, doublet forms for genitive plural in -um or -ium, and, more rarely, accusative plural -īs for -ēs)

    singular plural
    nominative parēns parentēs
    genitive parentis parentum
    parentium
    dative parentī parentibus
    accusative parentem parentēs
    parentīs
    ablative parente parentibus
    vocative parēns parentēs
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    Descendants
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    Etymology 2

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    Present active participle of pāreō.

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    pārēns (genitive pārentis); third-declension one-termination adjective

    1. obedient
    2. subject to
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    Third-declension one-termination adjective.

    singular plural
    masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
    nominative pārēns pārentēs pārentia
    genitive pārentis pārentium
    dative pārentī pārentibus
    accusative pārentem pārēns pārentēs pārentia
    ablative pārentī pārentibus
    vocative pārēns pārentēs pārentia

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    • “parens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “parens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • parens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • parens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to degenerate (from one's ancestors): a parentibus degenerare
      • of humble, obscure origin: humilibus (obscuris) parentibus natus
    1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “parent”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
    2. ^ “parente” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

    Swedish

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    Noun

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    parens

    1. definite genitive plural of par

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