Daily Ancestorparvulus
Parvulus is Latin for a little one, a small child or infant; as an adjective it means very small or young.
Parvulus is the diminutive of parvus, small. As an adjective it means little, tiny or young; as a noun it means a little one, an infant or a child.
In a burial entry it marks the dead person as a small child, and parvula is the girl's form. Look for the baptism a few weeks, months or years earlier.
As seen in a recordLatin burial register, Hungary, 1800s
Sepulta est parvula Rosalia, filia Stephani Ferkovics
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