parent

ca-noun

parent m (plural parents, feminine parenta)


parent

After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.

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.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

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 […]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 9:19–20:

The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.

2005 August 24, Siobhan O'Neill, The Guardian:

One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.

A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.

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.

2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.

Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.

1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia:

Indolence and unalimentary food are the parents of this disease; but to neither are Indians accustomed.

1789, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 68, page 341:

(biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.

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.

1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:

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(attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.

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.

2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
A parent company.

(computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.

(physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.

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person who acts as a parent in rearing a child — see also guardian

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biology: organism from which a plant or animal is biologically descended

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computing: object from which a child or derived object is descended

From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“I breed, bring forth”).


parent

However, even with money and caregivers, the child is left without a parent and most likely without a plan for their emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being. A time will come when you will no longer be able to parent your child, period.

2006, Natalie Bandlow, Parent to Child the Guide: How to Create a Comprehensive And Meaningful Journal to Prepare Your Child for Life, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 1:

(programming) To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.

en-verb

parent (third-person singular simple present parents, present participle parenting, simple past and past participle parented)

parents (present singular third-person)
parenting (participle present)
parented (participle past)
parented (past)


parent

Nous devons toujours être aux côtés de nos parents et de nos amis.

We must always stand by our family and our friends.

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, chapter 4, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 1:

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.

fr-noun

parent m (plural parents, feminine parente)

Inherited from Middle French parent, from Old French parent, from Latin parentem.


parent

fr-adj

parent (feminine parente, masculine plural parents, feminine plural parentes)

parente (feminine)
parents (masculine plural)
parentes (feminine plural)


parent

third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of parer

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


parent

third-person plural present active subjunctive of parō


parent

third-person plural present active indicative of pāreō


parent

French: parent


parent

From Old French parent, from Latin parēns, parentem, from pariō, parere (“bring forth, give birth to, produce”).


parent

fro-noun

parent oblique singular, m (oblique plural parenz or parentz, nominative singular parenz or parentz, nominative plural parent)

parent oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
parenz (oblique plural)
parentz (oblique plural)
parenz (nominative singular)
parentz (nominative singular)
parent (nominative plural)

→ Middle English: parent

English: parent

Middle French: parent

French: parent

Norman: parent (Guernsey), pathent (Jersey)