parco
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
parco (feminine parca, masculine plural parchi, feminine plural parche)
- frugal, moderate, temperate, sparing
- Synonyms: frugale, parsimonioso, sobrio
- Antonyms: dissoluto, sprecone
Derived terms edit
References edit
- parco1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
From Old French parc. First attested in the 14th c.[1]
Noun edit
parco m (plural parchi)
Descendants edit
References edit
- parco2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “parque”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 407
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
parco
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpar.koː/, [ˈpärkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpar.ko/, [ˈpärko]
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Italic *pe-arkō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“off”) + *h₂erk- (“to hold, guard”) (whence arceō).[1] See also parcus.
Others make it cognate with Ancient Greek σπαρνός (sparnós, “rare”), English spare.
Verb edit
parcō (present infinitive parcere, perfect active pepercī or parsī, supine parsum); third conjugation
- (+ dative or accusative) to spare, save up, economise
- Synonym: reservo
- (figuratively, + dative) to forgive someone, have mercy for, to be lenient to
- c. 50 BCE, Publilius Syrus, Sententiae :
- Bonīs nocet quisquis pepercit malīs.
- He does harm to the good, whoever has been lenient to the bad
- Bonīs nocet quisquis pepercit malīs.
- Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti :
- victorque omnibus veniam petentibus civibus peperci.
- ... and victorious, I spared all the citizens desiring pardon.
- victorque omnibus veniam petentibus civibus peperci.
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.28:
- Non aetate confectis, non mulieribus, non infantibus pepercerunt
- They spared neither old men, women, or children
- Non aetate confectis, non mulieribus, non infantibus pepercerunt
- to let alone, omit
- (+ dative or a/ab + ablative) to refrain, abstain, avoid
Conjugation edit
- Perfect parsī is ante-Classical or post-Classical. Perfect parcuī and future participle parcitūrus are found rarely.
1At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Basque: barkatu
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
parcō
References edit
- parco in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “parco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “parco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- parco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to spare no pains: labori, operae non parcere
- to incur few expenses: sumptui parcere (Fam. 16. 4)
- to spare no pains: labori, operae non parcere
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 445
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: par‧co
Adjective edit
parco (feminine parca, masculine plural parcos, feminine plural parcas)
- scarce
- parsimonious, thrifty, economical, frugal
- Synonyms: parcimonioso, econômico
References edit
- ^ “parco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “parco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
parco (feminine parca, masculine plural parcos, feminine plural parcas)
Further reading edit
- “parco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014