parva

Galician

With the first meaning, attested since 1807. From Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”).

parva

parva 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

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

parva

parvā

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)

parva f (plural parvas)

parva f