parvus

Apparently metathesized from Proto-Italic *pauros (“few, small”) (compare paulus from *paurelos), from *peh₂urós, suffixed form of *peh₂w-. Cognate with Ancient Greek παῦρος (paûros), Old Saxon fā (“few”), Old High German fao, fō (“few, little”), Old Norse fár (“few”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍃 (faus, “few”), Old English fēawa, fēawe, fēa (“few”), Latin paucus (“little, few”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.wus/, [ˈpar.wʊs]

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parvus (feminine parva, neuter parvum); first/second declension

1. small, little, cheap
2. ignorable, unimportant

First/second declension.

This adjective has irregular comparative and superlative degrees.

• comparative: minor, superlative: minimus, minumus

• minutus

• grandis
• magnus

• parvulus
• paulus

• Galician: parvo
• Spanish: parvo, párvulo
• Portuguese: parvo
• Romanian pârv

• parvus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• parvus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• parvus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• parvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • from youth up: a puero (is), a parvo (is), a parvulo (is)
    
  • important results are often produced by trivial causes: ex parvis saepe magnarum rerum momenta pendent
    
  • a deep, high, thin, moderate voice: vox gravis, acuta, parva, mediocris
    
  • to be satisfied with a little: paucis, parvo contentum esse
    
  • to buy cheaply: parvo, vili pretio or bene emere
    
  • a thing costs much, little: aliquid magno, parvo stat, constat