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parentium

parentium is a Latin form of parens, meaning “parent; (adj.) obeying”.

It can also be a form of pareo, “obey (+dat.)”. It is the present active participle genitive plural masculine or present active participle genitive plural feminine or present active participle genitive plural neuter.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 67: … cogitationes conscientiaeque animi terrent; hae sunt impiis adsiduae domesticaeque Furiae quae dies noctesque parentium poenas a consceleratissimis filiis repetant.

Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis 3.11.1: … tibus data sunt ; quomodo horum extra ordinem habita ratio est, sic aliorum quoque beneficorum haberi debet." Parentium condicionem sacravimus, quia expediebat liberos tolli ; sollicitandi ad hunc laborem erant incertam adituri f …

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.