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parentelae

parentelae is the plural of parentela.

Meaning of parentela

Noun

parentela (plural parentelas or parentelae)

  1. An ancestor and all of his or her descendants; all descendants of a person's ancestors of a certain degree.
    • Every person who is in my father’s parentela is nearer to me than any person who can only claim kinship through some ancestor remoter from me than my father.1898, Sir Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland, The History of English Law, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 296

Questions about parentelae

What is parentelae the plural of?
Parentelae is the plural of parentela.

Words near parentelae in the dictionary

  1. Parenteaus
  2. parentectomies
  3. parentectomy
  4. parented
  5. parentela
  6. parentelae
  7. parentelas
  8. parentelic
  9. parenter
  10. parenteral
  11. parenterally

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