parva

With the first meaning, attested since 1843. From Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾba/,

parva f (plural parves)

1. small meal in the morning of a working day, before or after the breakfast, traditionally accompanied by wine or aguardiente.
   • 1843, Juan Junquera Huergo, Llos Trabayos de Chinticu:

     De boroña un rexilon, / que na corexa se tria, / ó un gaxu de panchon, / yera de munchos lla parba, / lla miuya ell golar yera / í d'agua bona cachada, / pos que lla mió zebera / non taba non enfornada.

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   • 1912, Pachín de Melás, Xuacu busca criáu.. ¡y ná más!:

     Y NA MAS... deseguía a tomar la parva, que una sardina arenga y una escudiella de lleche a Dios, non falta.

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   • 1920, Manuel García, Cartes a Xico:

     o tenga que pasar unes semanes / en sin tomar la parva, allá van seis perrines, / pa que veyes que los que tan na Bana / atropen el dinero como poxa / y non sienten gastalo nin migaya.

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   • 1925, Fabriciano González García, Vino barato:

     -Bonos díes, siñor Cura, / -Santos y bonos, Bartolu. / Acabo tomá la parva / De lo moreno, y un sorbu / De resquemín, que se pinta / Y esmecha pa mata 'l pioyu.

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2. (by extension) breakfast
3. pile of dry grass
4. pile of manure
5. (by extension) a big amount of something

   Trai una bona parva de preseos

   He/She brings a lot of tools

• “parva” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

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

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parva

1. feminine singular of parvo

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

• parvo

• 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

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

parvā

1. ablative feminine singular of parvus

• 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)

1. unthreshed grain
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 184:

     San Lorenzo es dueño de los vientos; por eso cuando en las parvas hay calma, los peones gritan: «¡Lorenzo! ¡Lorenzo!»

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2. pile, heap

parva f

1. feminine singular of parvo

• “parvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10