little (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. parvus, mĭnor, mĭnĭmus2. exĭguus (very small, tiny)3. pŭsillus (diminutive)4. paulus, very rare as adj.5. mĭnūtus • little (adj.): 1. parvus, mĭnor, mĭnĭmus: passim. Dimin. parvulus, very little (esp. with ref. to age): Ter.: Cic. 2. exĭguus (very small, tiny): the l. mouse, ex. mus, Virg. G. 1, 181 Cic. Very l., perexiguus: very l. corn p. frumentum, Caes. B. C. 3, 42. 3. pŭsillus (diminutive): a kind of l. Rome, quasi p. Roma, Cic. Att. 5. 2: Juv.: v. small. 4. paulus, very rare as adj.: more freq. in dimin. form: paululus: both horses and men l. and slender, equi hominesque paululi et graciles, Liv. 35, 11, med. (Cic. would have preferred pusillus v. supr.). 5. mĭnūtus: v. small. Phr.: for a l. while, (in) breve (not parvum) tempus; more freq. and idiomatic, parumper (for a few moments), Cic. Att. 9, 4, fin.: Ter.: or, paulisper, Caes. B. G. 3, 5 (paulisper intermittere proelium, where parumper would be less proper: paulisper is positive in meaning; parumper, negative = not more than a moment or two): little people (in stature), homines statura breves, Quint. 2, 3, 8. See also little (subs.). (N.B.--Little is often denoted in Lat. by a dimin. word: e. g. a l. child, parvulus; a little man, a mannikin, homuncio, homullus; a l. estate, praediolum; l. savings, vindemiolae, etc.: where see the several subss.)