Where does “parvity” come from?
parvity (English) comes from Latin parvitas, from Latin parvus, from Latin -ior, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
parvity (English): smallness
Ancestry of “parvity”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | parvitas | smallness, littleness; unimportance,... |
| 2 | Latin | parvus | small, little, puny; cheap, petty, trifling,... |
| 3 | Latin | -ior | "third declension"; forms adjectives’ comparative... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |