parvulus

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin parvulus. By surface analysis, parvus (“small”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive suffix).

Adjective

parvulus m (feminine parvula, neuter parvulum)

1. Diminutive of parvus; small, little.

Derived terms

• Aphaenops parvulus
• Bothrometopus parvulus
• Bryodelphax parvulus
• Cycloramphus parvulus
• Heptarthrogaster parvulus
• Mimus parvulus
• Oxybrycon parvulus
• Paratorchus parvulus
• Penstemon parvulus
• Phaseolus parvulus
• Plestiodon parvulus
• Raorchestes parvulus
• Scarabaeolus parvulus
• Temnothorax parvulus

Latin

Alternative forms

• parvolus (normal Republican spelling)

Etymology

parvus +‎ -ulus

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.wʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.vu.lus]

Adjective

parvulus (feminine parvula, neuter parvulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. diminutive of parvus
   1. (of size) little, tiny, petty
   2. (of degree, extent, value, importance) slight, unimportant
   3. young, tender of years

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	parvulus	parvula	parvulum		parvulī	parvulae	parvula
genitive	parvulī	parvulae	parvulī		parvulōrum	parvulārum	parvulōrum
dative	parvulō	parvulae	parvulō		parvulīs
accusative	parvulum	parvulam	parvulum		parvulōs	parvulās	parvula
ablative	parvulō	parvulā	parvulō		parvulīs
vocative	parvule	parvula	parvulum		parvulī	parvulae	parvula

Descendants

• → Translingual: parvulus

Noun

parvulus m (genitive parvulī); second declension

1. little one, infant, child

   Synonyms: ā puerō, ā puerīs, ā tenerīs (unguiculīs), dē tenerō unguī

   ā parvulō ― from infancy, early childhood

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	parvulus	parvulī
genitive	parvulī	parvulōrum
dative	parvulō	parvulīs
accusative	parvulum	parvulōs
ablative	parvulō	parvulīs
vocative	parvule	parvulī

Descendants

• Italian: pargolo, → parvolo
• → Asturian: párvolu
• → Portuguese: párvulo
• → Spanish: párvulo

References

• “paruulus” on page 1436 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• “parvulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "parvulus", 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)
• “parvulus”, 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)