parva

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Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

parva

  1. feminine singular of parvo

Noun

parva f (plural parvas)

  1. 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
  2. (regional) breakfast
  3. grain prepared for threshing

Related terms

References

Latin

Adjective

parva

  1. inflection of parvus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

parvā

  1. ablative feminine singular of parvus

References

Spanish

Noun

parva f (plural parvas)

  1. unthreshed grain
  2. pile, heap

Adjective

parva f

  1. feminine singular of parvo

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