parente

See also: Parente and parenté

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

parente

1. feminine singular of parent

Noun

parente f (plural parentes)

1. female equivalent of parent

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese parente, from Latin parentem, accusative singular of parēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paˈɾentɪ]

Adjective

parente m or f (plural parentes)

1. related

Noun

parente m or f by sense (plural parentes)

1. a relative
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 250:

     Desý ouueron moy bon uẽto, cõ que entrarõ a alto mar, Et espedírõsse de todos seus amjgos et de todos seus parẽtes.

     Thenceforth they had very good wind, with which they entered the high sea, and they said goodbye to all of their friends and relatives

   • 1433, Á. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 17:

     por min ou por los ditos meus yrmãaos por quanto eles et eu eramos et somos os parentes mas propincos que o dito Juan da Pedreira avia.

     for me or for said brothers of mine, because they and I were and are the closest relatives that said Xoán da Pedreira had

Usage notes

• Parente is a false friend, and does not mean parent. The Galician word for parent is pai or nai.

Synonyms

• familiar
• achegado

References

• “parente” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “parente” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “parente” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “parente” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “parente” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Etymology 1

From parer.

Participle

parente

1. present participle of parer

Etymology 2

From Latin parens, parentem.

Noun

parente (plural parentes)

1. relative
2. (especially in the plural) parents

   Synonym: genitor

Italian

Etymology

From Latin parentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈrɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: pa‧rèn‧te

• Audio

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Noun

parente m or f by sense (plural parenti)

1. relative, relation

   Synonym: congiunto

   parente prossimo ― close relative

2. sibling

Derived terms

• parente acquisito
• parente prossimo
• parente stretto

Related terms

• parentado
• parentela

See also

• genitore / genitrice

Anagrams

• aprente, pantere, paterne, penetra, perenta, prenate, rapente

Latin

Noun

parente

1. ablative singular of parēns

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese parente, from Latin parentem (“relative”), from pariō (“to bring forth, to give birth to, to produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈɾẽ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈɾẽ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈɾẽ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈɾẽ.tɨ/

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /pa.ˈɾẽ.ti/
• Rhymes: -ẽtɨ, -ẽt͡ʃi
• Hyphenation: pa‧ren‧te

Noun

parente m or f by sense (plural parentes)

1. relative (someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption)

Adjective

parente m or f (plural parentes, not comparable)

1. related (in the same family)
2. related (standing in relation)

   O português é um idioma parente do espanhol.

   Portuguese is a language related to Spanish.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:parente.

Related terms

• parentada
• parentagem
• parental
• parentalha
• parentear
• parenteira
• parenteiro
• parentela
• parentesco