Shortening.
parvo (uncountable)
- (informal) Theparvovirus.
1980,Business Week:Inoculating a dog againstparvo costs about $7 to $15 for the shot, depending on your area and choice of veterinarian.
1995, Mike Harlowe,K-9 Bodyguards: Ill:He will probably be next to a street cur that hasparvo or rabies or distemper.
Inherited fromLatinparvus(“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutiveparvulus; fromProto-Indo-European*ph₁w-(“few, small”). Cognate withPortugueseparvo.
- IPA(key): /ˈpaɾbo/[ˈpaɾ.β̞ʊ]
- Rhymes:-aɾbo
- Hyphenation:par‧vo
parvo (feminineparva,masculine pluralparvos,feminine pluralparvas)
- foolish,stupid
- unintelligent
- simpleton
parvo m (pluralparvos,feminineparva,feminine pluralparvas)
- afool, anidiot
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “parvo”, inDicionario 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), “parvo”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “parvo”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN
parvō
- dative/ablativemasculine/neutersingular ofparvus
Inherited fromLatinparvus, from metathesized form ofProto-Indo-European*pau-ro, from*ph₁w-(“few, small”). Cognate withGalician andSpanishparvo.
parvo (feminineparva,masculine pluralparvos,feminine pluralparvas)
- (anatomy)small
- veia safenaparva ―small saphenous vein
- (chiefly Portugal)dumb,foolish,stupid
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:idiota
Como é que consegues ser tãoparvo?- How can you be sostupid?
parvo m (pluralparvos,feminineparva,feminine pluralparvas)
- afool, anidiot
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:idiota
FromLatinparvus.
- IPA(key): /ˈpaɾbo/[ˈpaɾ.β̞o]
- Rhymes:-aɾbo
- Syllabification:par‧vo
parvo (feminineparva,masculine pluralparvos,feminine pluralparvas)
- (formal)small,minute
- Synonyms:pequeño,diminuto
