parcus

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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See parcō.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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parcus (feminine parca, neuter parcum, comparative parcior, superlative parcissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. sparing, frugal, thrifty
    Synonym: frūgālis
  2. scanty, slight, little, small
    Synonyms: modicus, paucus, perpaucus
    Antonym: nimius
Declension
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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative parcus parca parcum parcī parcae parca
genitive parcī parcae parcī parcōrum parcārum parcōrum
dative parcō parcae parcō parcīs
accusative parcum parcam parcum parcōs parcās parca
ablative parcō parcā parcō parcīs
vocative parce parca parcum parcī parcae parca
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Catalan: parc
  • Italian: parco
  • Portuguese: parco
  • Spanish: parco

Etymology 2

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Noun

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parcus m (genitive parcī); second declension

  1. Alternative form of parricus (enclosure, fence)

Further reading

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  • parcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • parcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • parcus 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)
  • parcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • parcus”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011