paulus

== Latin == === Etymology === From earlier paullus, likely from Proto-Italic *paukslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”) + *-ko- + *-slom, the first two elements also giving Latin paucus (“few”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpau̯.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpaːu̯.lus] === Adjective === paulus (feminine paula, neuter paulum, adverb paulō); first/second-declension adjective little, small Synonym: parvus Antonyms: magnus, immānis, ingēns, vāstus ==== Usage notes ==== Used especially pertaining to size. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “paucus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 450 === Further reading === “paulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “paulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "paulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “paulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co. “paulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “paulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray