parent
English
Etymology
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.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, John 9:19–20:
- 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.
- 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.
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- (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.
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- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node. [from 20th c.]
Synonyms
- (person from whom one is descended): progenitor
- (computing: object from which a child is descended): mother
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
person from whom one is descended
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person who acts as a parent in rearing a child
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biology: organism from which a plant or animal is biologically descended
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source or origin of something
parent company — see parent company
computing: object from which a child or derived object is descended
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Verb
parent (third-person singular simple present parents, present participle parenting, simple past and past participle parented)
Derived terms
See also
References
- J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner (prepared by), The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (Claredon Press, Oxford 1991 [1989], →ISBN), page 1274
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan parent, from Latin parentem, accusative singular of parēns.
Pronunciation
Related terms
- parentiu
French
Etymology
From Middle French parent, from Old French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative singular of parēns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.ʁɑ̃/
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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, singular) parent
- (in the plural) ancestors
- (in the plural) parents
Derived terms
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
Derived terms
Derived terms
- familles parentes
- intelligences parentes
- langues parentes
- parent à
- parent avec
- parent de
Verb
parent
Further reading
- “parent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French parent.
Norman
Alternative forms
- pathent (Jersey)
Old French
Etymology
From Latin parēns, parentem.
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