parentela

Catalan

Alternative forms

• parentel·la

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin parentēla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pə.ɾənˈtɛ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pa.ɾenˈtɛ.la]

Noun

parentela f (plural parenteles)

1. kinfolk, relatives, relations

Further reading

• “parentela” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “parentela” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.renˈtɛ.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: pa‧ren‧tè‧la

Noun

parentela f (plural parentele)

1. relationship
2. (usually in the plural) kin, relations; relatives

Anagrams

• parentale, paternale, prenatale

Latin

Etymology

parēns +‎ -ēla

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.renˈte.la/, [pären̪ˈt̪ɛːlä]

Noun

parentēla f (genitive parentēlae); first declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

1. relationship
2. relatives, kin

   Synonyms: prōsāpia, cognātiō

   • 1125, William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum 263.28:

     homuncionem exilis staturae, despicabilis parentelae

     a little man of small stature, of lowly kin

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	parentēla	parentēlae
Genitive	parentēlae	parentēlārum
Dative	parentēlae	parentēlīs
Accusative	parentēlam	parentēlās
Ablative	parentēlā	parentēlīs
Vocative	parentēla	parentēlae

References

• Souter, Alexander (1949) “parentela”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎^[1], 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 286

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin parentēla.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ɾẽˈtɛ.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ɾẽˈtɛ.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ɾẽˈtɛ.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.ɾẽˈtɛ.lɐ/

Noun

parentela f (plural parentelas)

1. relatives (people in one’s family)

Related terms

• parente
• parentesco

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin parentēla; see English parent.

Noun

parentela f (plural parentelas)

1. kinfolk, relatives, relations

Further reading

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