parvula

parvula is a Latin form of parvulus, meaning “very small, little; (noun) small child”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus 2.2.1: non occupatione, qua eram sane impeditus, sed parvula lippitudine adductus sum ut dictarem hanc epistulam et non, ut ad te soleo, ipse scriberem. et primum me tibi …

Suetonius, Nero 31.4: … ae, quos Dido regina fugiens Tyro secum extulisset, esse in Africa uastissimis specubus abditos ac posse erui paruula molientium opera.

Petronius, Satyricon (poems) 1·2: Cum sonuere tubae, iugulo stat divite ferrum barbaricum: tenuis praebia pannus habet. 81 P.L.M. Parvula securo tegitur mihi culmine sedes uvaque plena mero fecunda pendet ab ulmo. Dant rami cerasos, dant mala rube …

All forms of parvulus (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.