clientela

Galician

Etymology

From Latin clientēla, from cliēns, clientis "customer, client".

Noun

clientela f (plural clientelas)

1. clientele

Derived terms

• clientelar
• clientelismo

Related terms

• cliente

Further reading

• “clientela”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin clientēla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kli.enˈtɛ.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: cli‧en‧tè‧la

Noun

clientela f (plural clientele)

1. customer, client, clientele (most often in the plural)

Related terms

• cliente

Further reading

• clientela in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• catinelle, centellai

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Latin

Etymology

From cliēns (“customer”) +‎ -ēla.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kli.enˈteː.la/, [klʲiɛn̪ˈt̪eːɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kli.enˈte.la/, [klien̪ˈt̪ɛːlä]

Noun

clientēla f (genitive clientēlae); first declension

1. clientship, patronage
2. (in the plural) clients

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	clientēla	clientēlae
Genitive	clientēlae	clientēlārum
Dative	clientēlae	clientēlīs
Accusative	clientēlam	clientēlās
Ablative	clientēlā	clientēlīs
Vocative	clientēla	clientēlae

Descendants

• French: clientèle
  • → English: clientele
• Galician: clientela
• Italian: clientela
• Portuguese: clientela
• Spanish: clientela
• → German: Klientel
• → Russian: клиентела (klijentela)

References

• “clientela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clientela”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clientela 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)
• clientela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “clientela”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clientela in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “clientela”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Portuguese

Noun

clientela f (plural clientelas)

1. clientele (body of clients who frequent an establishment)

   Synonym: freguesia

Related terms

• cliente

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin clientēla, from cliēns, clientis "customer, client".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kljenˈtela/ [kljẽn̪ˈt̪e.la]

Noun

clientela f (plural clientelas)

1. clientele

Derived terms

• clientelar
• clientelismo

Related terms

• cliente

Further reading

• “clientela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014