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parva

parva is a Latin form of parvus, meaning “small, little”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective or nominative singular feminine adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 510 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.2.2: Quin etiam iumentis, quibus maxime Galli delectantur quaeque impenso parant pretio, Germani importatis non utuntur, sed quae sunt apud eos nata, parva atque deformia, haec cotidiana exercitatione summi ut sint laboris efficiunt.

Ovid, Amores 2.16.2: Parva, sed inriguis ora salubris aquis.

Propertius, Elegiae 4.1.23: parua saginati lustrabant compita porci,

All forms of parvus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.