Noun: parva
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | parva |
| Plural f | parvas |
Sample Sentences
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é estou en que na quel dia / vos laparon todo aquelo / que non poideron vender / como quen vos toma a parva (I have the idea that that day they slurped everything that couldn't sell, as if having a snack) [1807, anonymous author, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:]
Nouns inflected like parva
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
With the first meaning, attested since 1807. From Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”). See: Latin Nouns '
parvus'.
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