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parentibus

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

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

Found 175 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.14.2: Tantis excitati praemiis et sua sponte multi in disciplinam conveniunt et a parentibus propinquisque mittuntur.

Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis 3.38.2: … primi potest, quantum opus sit, quam laudabile quamque numquam memoria hominum exiturum, posse hoc dicere : ' Parentibus meis parui, cessi imperio eorum, sive aecum sive inicum ac durum fuit, obsequentem submissumque me praebui ; …

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.