parental

See also: parenteral

English

Etymology

From Middle French parental, from Latin parentālis, from parens (“parent”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /pəˈɹɛn.təl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pəˈɹen.təl/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈparəɳʈəl/, /ˈpe-/; /pəˈrɛɳʈəl/

Adjective

parental (comparative more parental, superlative most parental)

1. Of or relating to a parent.
2. Befitting a parent; affectionate; tender.
3. (genetics) Of the generation of organisms that produce a hybrid.
   • 1916, William E. Castle, Gregor Mendel, Genetics & Eugenics‎^[1], page 101:

     This, following Bateson, we may call the parental generation or P generation. Subsequent generations are called filial generations (abbreviated F) and their numerical order is indicated by a subscript, [...]

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “relating to a parent”): filial
• (antonym(s) of “genetics”): filial

Hypernyms

• monoparental

Derived terms

• alloparental
• bioparental
• biparental
• coparental
• diparental
• extraparental
• filioparental
• godparental
• grandparental
• heteroparental
• interparental
• monoparental
• multiparental
• nonparental
• parental alienation
• parental alienation syndrome
• parental control
• parental duty
• parental home
• parentalism
• parentality
• parental leave
• parental love
• parentally
• parental rights
• parental unit
• preparental
• quasiparental
• stepparental
• tetraparental
• triparental
• uniparental
• unparental

Translations

relating to parent

• Albanian: prindëror (sq) m, prindërore f
• Arabic: وَالِدِيّ (wālidiyy)
• Aromanian: pãrintescu m, pãrinteascã f
• Belarusian: бацько́ўскі (bacʹkówski), ба́цькаўскі (bácʹkawski), радзі́цельскі (radzícjelʹski)
• Bulgarian: роди́телски (bg) (rodítelski)
• Catalan: parental (ca)
• Czech: rodičovský (cs)
• Dutch: ouderlijk (nl)
• Esperanto: gepatra
• Finnish: vanhempien
• French: parental (fr)
• German: elterlich (de)
• Greek: γονικός (el) (gonikós), γονεϊκός (el) (goneïkós)
• Hungarian: szülői (hu)
• Italian: parentale (it)
• Latin: parentālis
• Macedonian: родителски (roditelski)
• Polish: rodzicielski (pl)
• Portuguese: parental (pt)
• Romanian: părintesc (ro) m, părintească f
• Russian: роди́тельский (ru) (rodítelʹskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ро̀дитељскӣ

  Roman: ròditeljskī (sh)

• Slovak: rodičovský
• Slovene: starševski
• Spanish: parental (es)
• Ukrainian: ба́тьківський (uk) (bátʹkivsʹkyj), роди́тельський (rodýtelʹsʹkyj)

See also

• paternal
• maternal

Noun

parental (plural parentals)

1. A person fulfilling a parental role.

   Nowadays there are all kinds of potential parentals besides parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, step-parents, in-laws, older siblings and cousins, and those in civil unions.

Anagrams

• paternal, prenatal

French

Etymology

From parent +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁɑ̃.tal/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Adjective

parental (feminine parentale, masculine plural parentaux, feminine plural parentales)

1. parental

Derived terms

• monoparental

Further reading

• “parental”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• plantera

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin parentālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ɾẽˈtaw/ [pa.ɾẽˈtaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.ɾẽˈtal/ [pɐ.ɾẽˈtaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.ɾẽˈtal/ [pɐ.ɾẽˈtaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.ɾẽˈta.li/

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: pa‧ren‧tal

Adjective

parental m or f (plural parentais, not comparable)

1. (relational) parent; parental
2. (relational) relative (relating to familial relations)

Related terms

• parente

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French parental.

Adjective

parental m or n (feminine singular parentală, masculine plural parentali, feminine/neuter plural parentale)

1. parental

Declension

Declension of parental

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	parental		parentală		parentali	parentale
	definite	parentalul		parentala		parentalii	parentalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	parental		parentale		parentali	parentale
	definite	parentalului		parentalei		parentalilor	parentalelor

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin parentālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paɾenˈtal/ [pa.ɾẽn̪ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pa‧ren‧tal

Adjective

parental m or f (masculine and feminine plural parentales)

1. parental

Derived terms

• homoparental
• monoparental
• PIN parental

Related terms

• pariente

Further reading

• “parental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024