parva
Galician
editEtymology
editWith the first meaning, attested since 1807. From Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editparva
Noun
editparva f (plural parvas)
- small meal in the morning of a working day, before or after the breakfast, traditionally accompanied by wine or augardente
- 1807, anonymous author, 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
- (regional) breakfast
- grain prepared for threshing
Related terms
editReferences
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “parva”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “parva”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “parva”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Latin
editAdjective
editparva
- inflection of parvus:
Adjective
editparvā
References
edit- 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)
Spanish
editNoun
editparva f (plural parvas)
- unthreshed grain
- pile, heap
Adjective
editparva f
Further reading
edit- “parvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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