parent
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of parere (“to breed, bring forth”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
parent (plural parents)
- One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father. [from 15th c.]
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, First Folio 1623, I.2:
- my trust / Like a good parent, did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), John 9:19–20
- And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind [...].
- 2005, Siobhan O'Neill, The Guardian, 24 Aug 2005:
- The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, First Folio 1623, I.2:
- A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
- (obsolete) A relative. [15th-18th c.]
- The source or origin of something. [from 16th c.]
- 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia:
- Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.
- 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia:
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended. [from 17th c.]
- A parent company. [from 20th c.]
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node. [from 20th c.]
Synonyms [edit]
- (person from whom one is descended): progenitor
- (computing: object from which a child is descended): mother
Antonyms [edit]
- (person from whom one is descended): child, offspring
- (computing: object from which a child is descended): child
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Translations [edit]
person from whom one is descended
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person who acts as a parent in rearing a child
biology: organism from which a plant or animal is biologically descended
source or origin of something
parent company — see parent company
computing: object from which a child or derived object is descended
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Verb [edit]
parent (third-person singular simple present parents, present participle parenting, simple past and past participle parented)
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin parentem.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
parent m (plural parents; feminine parente, plural parentes)
- relative, relation, family member
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.iv:
- Une de ses parentes éloignées, madame la comtesse de Lô, laissait rarement échapper une occasion d'énumérer en sa présence ce qu'elle appelait «les espérances» de ses trois fils.
- One of his distant relatives, the countess of Lô, rarely missed an opportunity to list, in his presence, what she called her "hopes" for her three sons.
- Une de ses parentes éloignées, madame la comtesse de Lô, laissait rarement échapper une occasion d'énumérer en sa présence ce qu'elle appelait «les espérances» de ses trois fils.
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.iv:
- (in the plural) ancestors
- (in the plural) parents
Derived terms [edit]
Verb [edit]
parent
Anagrams [edit]
Guernésiais [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French parent, from Latin parēns, parentem, present participle of pariō, parere (“breed, bring forth”).
Noun [edit]
parent m (plural parents)
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
parent
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of parō
Middle French [edit]
Noun [edit]
parent m (plural parens)
Old French [edit]
Noun [edit]
parent m (oblique plural parenz, nominative singular parenz, nominative plural parent)
Derived terms [edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
- en:Biology
- en:Computing
- English verbs
- en:Family
- en:Parents
- French terms derived from Latin
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- French verb forms
- fr:Family
- Guernésiais terms derived from Old French
- Guernésiais terms derived from Latin
- Guernésiais nouns
- roa-grn:Family
- Latin verb forms
- Middle French nouns
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
