SAVING Copy link • SAVING 1. adj., parcus: praeparcus. Vid: FRUGAL. 2. s. compendium (a sparing): quod aliquis parsimonia collegit (that which has been saved): quod aliquis de aliqua re comparsit (that which anyone has put by from a thing; e.g., quod servus unciatim de demenso suo comparsit, Ter., Phorm: 1, 1, 9): with a great saving of wood, magno ligni compendio (Plin.).