# clientela
## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin clientēla, from cliēns, clientis "customer, client".

### Noun

clientela f (plural clientelas)
* clientele

#### Derived terms

* clientelar
* clientelismo

#### Related terms

* cliente

### Further reading

* “clientela”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin clientēla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kli.enˈtɛ.la/
* Rhymes: -ɛla
* Hyphenation: cli‧en‧tè‧la

### Noun

clientela f (plural clientele)
* (usually in the plural) customer, client, clientele

#### Related terms

* cliente

### References

* ↑ clientela in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* clientela in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* catinelle, centellai

## Latin
### Etymology

From cliēns (“customer”) +‎ -ēla.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kli.enˈteː.la/, [klʲiɛn̪ˈt̪eːɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kli.enˈte.la/, [klien̪ˈt̪ɛːlä]

### Noun

clientēla f (genitive clientēlae); first declension
* clientship, patronage
* (in the plural) clients

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* French: clientèle
** → English: clientele
* Galician: clientela
* Italian: clientela
* Portuguese: clientela
* Romanian: clientelă
* Spanish: clientela
* → German: Klientel
* → Russian: клиентела (klijentela)

### References

* “clientela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “clientela”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* clientela 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)
* clientela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “clientela”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* clientela in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “clientela”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kli.ẽˈtɛ.lɐ/ [klɪ.ẽˈtɛ.lɐ], (faster pronunciation) /kljẽˈtɛ.lɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /kli.ẽˈtɛ.lɐ/ [klɪ.ẽˈtɛ.lɐ], (faster pronunciation) /kljẽˈtɛ.lɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kli.ẽˈtɛ.la/ [klɪ.ẽˈtɛ.la], (faster pronunciation) /kljẽˈtɛ.la/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kli.ẽˈtɛ.lɐ/, (faster pronunciation) /kljẽˈtɛ.lɐ/
* Hyphenation: cli‧en‧te‧la

### Noun

clientela f (plural clientelas)
* clientele (body of clients who frequent an establishment)
    Synonym: freguesia

#### Related terms

* cliente

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin clientēla, from cliēns, clientis "customer, client".

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kljenˈtela/ [kljẽn̪ˈt̪e.la]
* Rhymes: -ela
* Syllabification: clien‧te‧la

### Noun

clientela f (plural clientelas)
* clientele

#### Derived terms

* clientelar
* clientelismo

#### Related terms

* cliente

### Further reading

* “clientela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10