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Latin
Etymology 1
See parcō.
Pronunciation
Adjective
parcus (feminine parca, neuter parcum, comparative parcior, superlative parcissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- sparing, frugal, thrifty
- Synonym: frūgālis
- scanty, slight, little, small
- Synonyms: modicus, paucus, perpaucus
- Antonym: nimius
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
parcus m (genitive parcī); second declension
- Alternative form of parricus (“enclosure, fence”)
Further reading
- “parcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “parcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- parcus 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)
- parcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “parcus”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011