parva

parva

Galician

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaɾ.βɐ]

Adjective

parva

1. feminine singular of parvo

Noun

parva f (plural parvas)

1. small meal in the morning of a working day, before or after the breakfast, traditionally accompanied by wine or augardente
   • 1807, anonymous, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     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

2. (regional) breakfast
3. grain prepared for threshing

Related terms

• parvo

References

• “parva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “parva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “parva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Latin

Adjective

parva

1. inflection of parvus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

parvā

1. ablative feminine singular of parvus

References

• parva 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)

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Spanish

Noun

parva f (plural parvas)

1. unthreshed grain
2. pile, heap

Adjective

parva f

1. feminine singular of parvo

Further reading

• “parvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014