parens

== English == === Noun === parens plural of paren === Anagrams === panser, Närpes, Persan, resnap, Pernas, arpens == French == === Alternative forms === parents (Contemporary French) === Noun === parens m (archaic) plural of parent === Anagrams === panser, Persan, persan == Latin == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Italic *par-(e)nt-, an old aorist participle from Proto-Indo-European *pérh₃-t ~ *pr̥h₃-ént, from the root *perh₃-. Compare the regular present participle pariēns. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpa.rẽːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpaː.rens] ==== Noun ==== parēns m or f (genitive parentis); third declension parent, mother, father founder, ancestor a. 27 BC, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina, Book VIII, Chapter XXXVII.66 Quæ si esset in analogia, negant ullum casum duobus modis debuisse dici; quod fit contra...Nam sine reprehensione vulgo alii dicunt in singulari hac ovi et avi, alii hac ove et ave; in multitudinis hæ puppis restis et hæ puppes restes; item quod in patrico casu hoc genus dispariliter dicuntur civitatum parentum et civitatium parentium, in accusandi hos montes fontes et hos montis fontis. If regularity existed, they say, no case ought to be used in two forms; but the opposite is found to occur...For without censure quite commonly some say in the ablative singular ovi ('sheep') and avi ('bird'); others say ove and ave; in the plural, the nominative puppis ('ship's sterns') and restis ('ropes'), also puppes and restes; likewise there is the fact that in the genitive plural of words of this class are used the variant forms civitatum ('of states'), parentum ('of parents'), and civitatium, parentium ('of parents'), and in the accusative plural montes ('mountains'), fontes ('springs'), and montis, fontis. ===== Declension ===== Third declension noun (mixed i-stem, doublet forms for genitive plural in -um or -ium, and, more rarely, accusative plural -īs for -ēs) ===== Synonyms ===== genitor ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === Present active participle of pāreō. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpaː.rẽːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpaː.rens] ==== Participle ==== pārēns (genitive pārentis); third-declension one-termination participle appearing; being visible to obeying ===== Declension ===== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. ==== Adjective ==== pārēns (genitive pārentis); third-declension one-termination adjective obedient subject to ===== Declension ===== Third-declension one-termination adjective. === References === “parens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “parens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "parens", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “parens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “parent”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. “parente” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN == Swedish == === Noun === parens definite genitive plural of par === Anagrams === rapens, repans