Word Origin Summary

Parvus is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *peh₂urósProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
2. *paurosProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• parvo

  Spanish · derived from

• parvanimity

  English · derived from

• parva

  Galician · inherited from

• parvo

  Galician · inherited from

• Glen Parva

  English · derived from

• parvo

  Portuguese · inherited from

• parv

  French · derived from

• parvo-

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root