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Meaning of parvulus | Babel Free

Adjective feminine CEFR B2
[ˈpar.wʊ.ɫʊs]

Definitions

  1. little; tiny; petty
    adjective, declension-1, declension-2
  2. small; slight; paltry; mean; unimportant; insignificant
    adjective, declension-1, declension-2
  3. young; tender of years
    adjective, declension-1, declension-2

Examples

“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.

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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