tutela

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See also: tutelá

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tūtēla.

Pronunciation

Noun

tutela f (plural tuteles)

  1. custody
  2. guardianship

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin tūtēla.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tutela f (plural tutelas)

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuˈtɛ.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛla
  • Hyphenation: tu‧tè‧la

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tūtēla.

Noun

tutela f (plural tutele)

  1. (law) guardianship, tutorship
    Synonym: curatela
  2. protection
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

tutela

  1. inflection of tutelare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  • tutela in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From tueor (watch; guard) +‎ -ēla.

Pronunciation

Noun

tūtēla f (genitive tūtēlae); first declension

  1. tutelage, guardianship
  2. dependent, client
  3. watching, keeping, charge, care
    Synonyms: cūra, cultūra, cūrātiō, sollicitūdō
  4. safeguard, defence, protection
    Synonyms: dēfēnsiō, dēfēnsa, prōtēctiō, vindicātiō

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tūtēla tūtēlae
Genitive tūtēlae tūtēlārum
Dative tūtēlae tūtēlīs
Accusative tūtēlam tūtēlās
Ablative tūtēlā tūtēlīs
Vocative tūtēla tūtēlae

Descendants

References

  • tutela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tutela”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tutela in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tutela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • tutela”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tutela”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tutela.

Pronunciation

Noun

tutela f (plural tuteli)

  1. (law) guardianship, tutorship

Related terms

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin tūtēla.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tu‧te‧la

Noun

tutela f (plural tutelas)

  1. guardianship, tutorship
    Synonym: curatela

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tutela

  1. inflection of tutelar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • tutela” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian

Etymology

From tutelă +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

Verb

a tutela (third-person singular present tutelează, past participle tutelat) 1st conj.

  1. to mentor, to have a protégé

Conjugation

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuˈtela/
  • Rhymes: -ela
  • Syllabification: tu‧te‧la

Etymology 1

From Latin tūtēla.

Noun

tutela f (plural tutelas)

  1. custody
  2. guardianship
  3. title
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tutela

  1. inflection of tutelar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading