Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

parentela

/ˌpɛrənˈtilə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: par-entela
IPA: /ˌpɛrənˈtilə/

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An ancestor and all of his or her descendants; all descendants of a person's ancestors of a certain degree.

Example Sentences

"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."
"The maternal heirs of decedent derive their relationship from decedent's grandparents, and thus fall in the grandparent parentela."
"Most states use a parentelic system, under which the intestate estate passes to grandparents and their descendants, and if none to great-grandparents and their descendants, and if none to great-great-grandparents and their descendants, and so on down each line (parentela) descended from an ancestor until an heir is found."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌpɛrənˈtilə/
British English: /ˌparənˈtiːlə/

Inflected Forms

parentelas (plural) parentelae (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce parentela?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌpɛrənˈtilə/.
What does parentela mean?: An ancestor and all of his or her descendants; all descendants of a person's ancestors of a certain degree.

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