parvus

From Proto-Italic *pauros (“few, small”) with sonority hierarchy-related metathesis, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂urós, suffixed form of *peh₂w-. Cognate with Ancient Greek παῦρος (paûros), Old Armenian փոքր (pʻokʻr), and the Germanic cognates under Proto-Germanic *fawaz.

• parvos (normal Republican spelling)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.u̯us/, [ˈpäru̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.vus/, [ˈpärvus]

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parvus (feminine parva, neuter parvum, comparative minor, superlative minimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. Small, little, puny.
2. Cheap, petty, trifling, ignorable, unimportant.

1. 1 dextrae se parvus Iulus implicuit sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis

               Let little Iulus come with me, and let my wife follow our footsteps at a distance Virgil Aeneid II: 723-4    

First/second-declension adjective.

• minutus

• grandis
• magnus

parvus m (genitive parvī); second declension

1. child

   a parvo/ a parvis/ a parvolo ― since childhood

Second-declension noun.

• paucus
• paulus
• pauper
• puer

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• Asturian: párvolu
• Galician: parvo
• Italian: parvo
• Spanish: parvo, párvulo
• Portuguese: parvo
• Romanian: pârv (possibly)

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• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• parvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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
    
• Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti