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Shortening.

parvo (uncountable)

1. (informal) Parvovirus.
   • 1980, Business Week:
     Inoculating a dog against parvo costs about 7to7 to 7to15 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 has parvo or rabies or distemper.

• multum in parvo
• vapor

Inherited from Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”). Cognate with Portuguese parvo.

• IPA(key): /ˈpaɾbo/ [ˈpaɾ.β̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -aɾbo
• Hyphenation: par‧vo

parvo (feminine parva, masculine plural parvos, feminine plural parvas)

1. foolish, stupid
2. unintelligent
3. simpleton

parvo m (plural parvos, feminine parva, feminine plural parvas)

1. a fool, an idiot

• aparvar

• parva

• parvada

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “parvo”, 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), “parvo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “parvo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

parvō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of parvus

Inherited from Latin parvus, from metathesized form of Proto-Indo-European *pau-ro, from *ph₁w- (“few, small”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish parvo.

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaʁ.vu/ [ˈpaɦ.vu]

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaʁ.vu/ [ˈpaɦ.vu]

  • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈpaɾ.vu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈpaʁ.vu/
  • (Caipira) IPA(key): /ˈpaɻ.vu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaʁ.vo/ [ˈpaɦ.vo]

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpaɾ.vu/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpaɾ.vu/

  • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpaɾ.bu/ [ˈpaɾ.βu]

• Hyphenation: par‧vo

parvo (feminine parva, masculine plural parvos, feminine plural parvas)

1. (anatomy) small
   veia safena parva ― small saphenous vein
2. (chiefly Portugal) dumb, foolish, stupid
   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
   Como é que consegues ser tão parvo?
   How can you be so stupid?

parvo m (plural parvos, feminine parva, feminine plural parvas)

1. a fool, an idiot
   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota

• párvulo

• “parvo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

• “parvo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin parvus.

• IPA(key): /ˈpaɾbo/ [ˈpaɾ.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -aɾbo
• Syllabification: par‧vo

parvo (feminine parva, masculine plural parvos, feminine plural parvas)

1. (formal) small, minute
   Synonyms: pequeño, diminuto

• párvulo

• “parvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025