perparvus Latin · revision 34677

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *peh2u-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛrˈpar.wʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [perˈpar.vus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''perparvus''' (feminine perparva, neuter perparvum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|parvus|t2=small]], with the intensive prefix.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ [[m|la|parvus]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*pauro-]] and [[ine-pro|*peh2u-ro-]] (or [[m|ine-pro|*ph2eu-ro-]]).^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|παῦρος|tr=paûros|t=little]], [[non|fár|t=little]] and [[ang|fēa]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Lucretius,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of very small seeds.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero uses it of a very small and poor city, of a trifling fault and of a petty dispute;^(Lewis & Short 1879) he also says that money, honours, beauty and health count for very little when one has them.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Christian writers keep it: Augustine speaks of slight troubles, and Salvian and Cassiodorus use the neuter as a noun.^(TLL)

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+ In medieval British Latin Bede uses it of the Church, still young and very small, and of a very small book.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of very small seeds.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a small city and of things of little value.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it of slight troubles.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st third of 8th century AD – Bede uses it of the young Church.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Very small in size or amount, [[m|en|tiny]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of very slight value or importance, [[m|en|trifling]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}