parvulus

Borrowed from Latin parvulus. By surface analysis, parvus (“small”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive suffix).

parvulus m (feminine parvula, neuter parvulum)

1. Diminutive of parvus; small, little.

• parvolus (Old Latin)

From parvus + -ulus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.wʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.vu.lus]

parvulus (feminine parvula, neuter parvulum, adverb parvulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. diminutive of parvus
   1. (of size) little; tiny; petty
   2. (of degree, extent, value, importance) small; slight; paltry; mean; unimportant; insignificant
      • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 14.48:

        Quod sī istīs ipsīs voluptātibus bona aetās fruitur libentius, prīmum parvulīs fruitur rēbus, ut dīximus, deinde eīs, quibus senectūs, etiamsī nōn abundē potītur, nōn omnīnō caret.

        But if youth enjoys those very pleasures more freely, in the first place it delights in insignificant things — as we have stated — and furthermore, [it enjoys] those [things] which old age, even if it does not obtain them in abundance, still does not lack altogether.

   3. young; tender of years

First/second-declension adjective.

• → Translingual: parvulus

parvulus m (genitive parvulī); second declension

1. little one; infant; child

   Synonyms: ā puerō, ā puerīs, ā tenerīs (unguiculīs), dē tenerō unguī

   ā parvulō ― from infancy, early childhood

Second-declension noun.

• Italian: pargolo, → parvolo
• → Asturian: párvolu
• → Portuguese: párvulo
• → Spanish: párvulo

• “paruulus” on page 1436 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

• “parvulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "parvulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “parvulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • from youth up: a puero (is), a parvo (is), a parvulo (is)