Latin

Adverb

parum ‎(comparative minus, superlative minime)

1. very little, insufficient
   • Seneca Iunior, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium

     Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.

     Not who has little, but who wants more, is poor.

Derived terms

• parumper

References

• parum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• parum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PARUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “parum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the matter progresses favourably, succeeds: aliquid (bene, prospere) succedit or procedit (opp. parum procedere, non succedere)
    
  • good Latin: sermo latinus (opp. sermo parum latinus) (cf. sect. VII. 2., note For the use of adverbs...)
    
  • to unable to find a suitable expression: verbo parum valere (Tusc. 3. 5. 11)