tutela

See also: tutelá

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tūtēla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tuˈtɛ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tuˈtɛ.la]
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: tu‧te‧la

Noun

tutela f (plural tuteles)

1. custody
2. guardianship

Further reading

• “tutela” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin tūtēla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈtɛla/ [t̪uˈt̪ɛ.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: tu‧te‧la

Noun

tutela f (plural tutelas)

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Further reading

• “tutela”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

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

• autotutela
• tutelare (verb)

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tuːˈteː.la/, [t̪uːˈt̪eːɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tuˈte.la/, [t̪uˈt̪ɛːlä]

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

• Catalan: tutela
• Galician: tutela
• Italian: tutela
• Old French: tutele, tutelle
  • French: tutelle
  • → Middle English: tutele (“female guardian or protector”)
• → English: tutele (“tutelage”)
• Portuguese: tutela
• Romanian: tutelă
• Sicilian: tutila
• Spanish: tutela

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

• IPA^(key): /tuˈtɛː.la/

Noun

tutela f (plural tuteli)

1. (law) guardianship, tutorship

Related terms

• ttutela
• tutelari
• tutur

 

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin tūtēla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈtɛ.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: tu‧te‧la

Noun

tutela f (plural tutelas)

1. guardianship, tutorship

   Synonym: curatela

Related terms

• tutelar

 

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

• IPA^(key): /tu.teˈla/

Verb

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

1. to mentor, to have a protégé

Conjugation

infinitive			a tutela
gerund			tutelând
past participle			tutelat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	tutelez	tutelezi	tutelează	tutelăm	tutelați	tutelează
	imperfect	tutelam	tutelai	tutela	tutelam	tutelați	tutelau
	simple perfect	tutelai	tutelași	tutelă	tutelarăm	tutelarăți	tutelară
	pluperfect	tutelasem	tutelaseși	tutelase	tutelaserăm	tutelaserăți	tutelaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să tutelez	să tutelezi	să tuteleze	să tutelăm	să tutelați	să tuteleze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		tutelează			tutelați
	negative		nu tutela			nu tutelați

    conjugation of tutela (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

Derived terms

• tutelare

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈtela/ [t̪uˈt̪e.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: tu‧te‧la

Etymology 1

From Latin tūtēla.

Noun

tutela f (plural tutelas)

1. custody
2. guardianship
3. title

Derived terms

• tutela judicial
• tutela judicial efectiva

 

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 Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014