PARENT Copy link • PARENTPROP., parens (general term): pater (father): mater (mother): the common parent, communis omnium parens; operum (or rerum) omnium parens et effector; summus, or maximus, mundi parens. Figuratively, mater (e.g., similitudo satietatis mater, Cic.): parens (of persons [e.g., Socrates parens philosophiae]; of things, it must be used of those that are masculine, and sometimes is used of those that are feminine [terra parens omnium]: procreatrix: genitrix, feminine (e.g., procreatrix quaedam et quasi parens omnium artium est philosophia; genitrix virtutum frugalitas). To be the parent of, alere aliquid (e.g., honos alit artes). This opinion is the parent of many errours, hanc opinionem multi errores consecuti sunt. Sometimes causa, fons, origo (source) may serve.