"vecāki" meaning in All languages combined

See vecāki on Wiktionary

Adjective [Latvian]

Etymology: The term vecāki (“parents”) constitutes a nominalized use of the comparative plural form of the adjective vecs (“old”) and a calque of German Eltern (“parents”). In previous centuries it was also used in the sense of “ancient ones,” “ancestors,” “elders,” “wise ones;” in the 20th century, its meaning had become restricted to “parents.” Previously, combinations like tēvs un māte “father and mother” or tēvs māmiņa (lit. “father-mommy”). Etymology templates: {{uder|lv|de|Eltern||parents}} German Eltern (“parents”) Head templates: {{head|lv|adjective form}} vecāki
  1. nominative plural masculine of vecāks Tags: form-of, masculine, nominative, plural Form of: vecāks
    Sense id: en-vecāki-lv-adj-iqrFc7rh

Noun [Latvian]

Etymology: The term vecāki (“parents”) constitutes a nominalized use of the comparative plural form of the adjective vecs (“old”) and a calque of German Eltern (“parents”). In previous centuries it was also used in the sense of “ancient ones,” “ancestors,” “elders,” “wise ones;” in the 20th century, its meaning had become restricted to “parents.” Previously, combinations like tēvs un māte “father and mother” or tēvs māmiņa (lit. “father-mommy”). Etymology templates: {{uder|lv|de|Eltern||parents}} German Eltern (“parents”) Head templates: {{head|lv|noun|g=m|g2=|head=|sort=}} vecāki m, {{lv-noun|m|1st}} vecāki m (1st declension) Inflection templates: {{lv-decl-noun|vecāk|s|1st|no-sg|extrawidth=-60}}, {{lv-decl-noun-1|vecāk|s|4=no-sg|5=|6=|7=|8=|drop-v=|keep-s=|x=-60}}, {{lv-decl-noun-table|-|vecāki|-|vecākus|-|vecāku|-|vecākiem|-|vecākiem|-|vecākos|-|vecāki|type=1st declension|x=-60}} Forms: declension-1 [table-tags], - [nominative, singular], vecāki [nominative, plural], - [accusative, singular], vecākus [accusative, plural], - [genitive, singular], vecāku [genitive, plural], - [dative, singular], vecākiem [dative, plural], - [instrumental, singular], vecākiem [instrumental, plural], - [locative, singular], vecākos [locative, plural], - [singular, vocative], vecāki [plural, vocative]
  1. (of people) parents (someone's father and mother) Tags: declension-1, masculine
    Sense id: en-vecāki-lv-noun-aJGKRkq2
  2. (biology) parent, parental (an organism which has created other organisms) Tags: declension-1, masculine Categories (topical): Biology
    Sense id: en-vecāki-lv-noun-qOA4fmCo Categories (other): Latvian entries with incorrect language header, Latvian etymologies from LEV, Latvian pluralia tantum, Latvian undefined derivations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latvian entries with incorrect language header: 16 6 78 Disambiguation of Latvian etymologies from LEV: 22 5 73 Disambiguation of Latvian pluralia tantum: 37 9 54 Disambiguation of Latvian undefined derivations: 16 2 81 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 7 13 81 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 7 90 Topics: biology, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

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        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vecāki"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.