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

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
nominative	parvus	parva	parvum	parvī	parvae	parva
genitive	parvī	parvae	parvī	parvōrum	parvārum	parvōrum
dative	parvō	parvae	parvō	parvīs
accusative	parvum	parvam	parvum	parvōs	parvās	parva
ablative	parvō	parvā	parvō	parvīs
vocative	parve	parva	parvum	parvī	parvae	parva

This adjective has irregular comparative and superlative degrees.

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)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “parvus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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

From Proto-Indo-European *peh₂rwós ‎(“few, small”), metathesized form of *peh₂urós, suffixed form of *peh₂u-. Cognate with Ancient Greek παῦρος ‎(paûros), Old Saxon fā ‎(“few”), Old High German fao, fō ‎(“few, little”), Old Norse fár ‎(“few”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹 ‎(fawai, “few”), Old English fēawa, fēawe, fēa ‎(“few”), Latin paucus ‎(“little, few”).