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parenti

parenti is a Latin form of parens, meaning “parent; (adj.) obeying”. It is the dative singular feminine noun or present active participle ablative singular masculine or present active participle ablative singular feminine.

It can also be a form of pareo, “obey (+dat.)”.

Found 129 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 37: … tibus dicitur, voltu saepe laeditur pietas, quod supplicium satis acre reperietur in eum qui mortem obtulerit parenti? pro quo mori ipsum, si res postularet, iura divina atque humana cogebant.

All forms of parens (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.