Examines the gender change of parens in Latin, suggesting its completion pre-literature, indicating linguistic evolution.
The meanings of pater and mater present no problems in either the singular or the plural. Parens may now be more fully considered. Whatever change of gender this word underwent must have been completed in the pre-literary period of Latin, or, at any rate, before our extant literature was written. It happens that parens is masculine in the earliest example of its use, Carmen Saliare 1 (Baehrens): divóm paréntem cánte, divóm deo súpplicáte.
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