parvo
See also: parvo-
English edit
Etymology edit
Shortening.
Noun edit
parvo (uncountable)
- (informal) parvovirus
- 1980, Business Week:
- Inoculating a dog against parvo costs about $7 to $15 for the shot, depending on your area and choice of veterinarian.
- 1995, Mike Harlowe, K-9 Bodyguards: Ill:
- He will probably be next to a street cur that has parvo or rabies or distemper.
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Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”). Cognate with Portuguese parvo.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
parvo (feminine parva, masculine plural parvos, feminine plural parvas)
Noun edit
parvo m (plural parvos, feminine parva, feminine plural parvas)
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References edit
- “parvo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “parvo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “parvo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Latin edit
Adjective edit
parvō
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin parvus, from metathesized form of Proto-Indo-European *pau-ro, from *ph₁w- (“few, small”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish parvo.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: par‧vo
Adjective edit
parvo (feminine parva, masculine plural parvos, feminine plural parvas)
- (chiefly Portugal) dumb, foolish, stupid
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
- Como é que consegues ser tão parvo?
- How can you be so stupid?
- (anatomy) small
- veia safena parva ― small saphenous vein
Noun edit
parvo m (plural parvos, feminine parva, feminine plural parvas)
- a fool, an idiot
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
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Adjective edit
parvo (feminine parva, masculine plural parvos, feminine plural parvas)
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Further reading edit
- “parvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014