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English
Etymology
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From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of parere (“to breed, bring forth”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɛəɹənt/, /ˈpeəɹənt/, /ˈpæɹənt/; enPR: pârʹ-ənt, părʹ-ənt
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɛəɹənt/; enPR: pârʹ-ənt
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Noun
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.
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- 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.
- Synonym: progenitor
- Antonyms: child, offspring
- Hyponyms: father, mother
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, First Folio 1623, I.2:
- A surrogate mother
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material
- A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
- 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
- It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
- (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.]
- (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector. [1]
- 1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:
- The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
- A parent company. [from 20th c.]
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node. [from 20th c.]
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Verb
parent (third-person singular simple present parents, present participle parenting, simple past and past participle parented)
- To act as parent, to raise or rear.
- 2006, Natalie Bandlow, Parent to Child the Guide: How to Create a Comprehensive And Meaningful Journal to Prepare Your Child for Life, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 1:
- However, even with money and caregivers, the child is left without a parent and most likely without a plan for their emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being. A time will come when you will no longer be able to parent your child, period.
- 2006, Natalie Bandlow, Parent to Child the Guide: How to Create a Comprehensive And Meaningful Journal to Prepare Your Child for Life, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 1:
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See also
References
- ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “parent”, in The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, volumes II (P–Z, Supplement and Bibliography), Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 1274.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 147: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Latin parentem, accusative singular of parēns.
Pronunciation
Noun
parent m (plural parents, feminine parenta)
- relative (someone in the same family)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “parent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “parent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “parent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “parent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology 1
From Middle French parent, from Old French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative singular of parēns.
Pronunciation
Noun
parent m (plural parents, feminine parente)
- 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:
- (Louisiana, in the singular) parent
- (in the plural) ancestors
- (in the plural) parents
Derived terms
- arrière-arrière-grand-parent
- arrière-grand-parent
- être parent avec quelqu’un
- grand-parent
- ils sont proches parents
- parent éloigné
- parent par alliance
- parent pauvre
- parent proche
- parental
- parentalité
- parents adoptifs
- parents d’élèves
- parents et amis
- sans parents
- son plus proche parent
- traiter quelqu’un en parent pauvre
Adjective
parent (feminine parente, masculine plural parents, feminine plural parentes)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
parent
Further reading
- “parent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.rent/, [ˈpärɛn̪t̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.rent/, [ˈpäːren̪t̪]
Verb 1
(deprecated template usage) parent
Verb 2
(deprecated template usage) parent
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French parent.
Noun
parent m (plural parens)
Descendants
- French: parent
Norman
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French parent, from Latin parēns, parentem, from pariō, parere (“bring forth, give birth to, produce”).
Noun
parent m (plural parents)
Old French
Etymology
From Latin parēns, parentem.
Noun
parent oblique singular, m (oblique plural parenz or parentz, nominative singular parenz or parentz, nominative plural parent)
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Descendants
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- en:People
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