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Latin
Etymology
From parvus (“small”) + -tās (“-ity, -ness, -ship”, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
parvitās f (genitive parvitātis); third declension
- smallness, littleness
- unimportance, insignificance
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “parvitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “parvitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- parvitas 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)
- parvitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.