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parvitas

parvitas · f

smallness

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Where it lives

Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

parvĭtas — Lewis & Short

parvĭtas, ātis, f.parvus,

I smallness, littleness, slightness, insignificance (rare but class.): vincula talia quae cerni non possent propter parvitatem, * Cic. Univ. 13, 41; Plin. 2, 11, 8, § 51: parvitates et magnitudines rerum, Gell. 1, 3, 28: quaestionis, id. 7, 17, 2: mea parvitas ad favorem tuum decurrit, i. e. my humble self, Val. Max. praef.

In the wild

parvitate Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.15.13
parvitatem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.13
parvitatis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.8.p12
parvitate Tertullian, De Anima 19
parvitates Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.3.28
parvitate Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.3.3

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Where it came from

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