parco

• IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ko/
• Rhymes: -arko
• Hyphenation: pàr‧co

Borrowed from Latin parcus.

parco (feminine parca, masculine plural parchi, feminine plural parche)

1. frugal, moderate, temperate, sparing

   Synonyms: frugale, parsimonioso, sobrio

   Antonyms: dissoluto, sprecone

• parcamente
• parchezza

• parco¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Old French parc. First attested in the 14th c.^[1]

parco m (plural parchi)

1. park, garden

   Synonyms: area verde, giardino, riserva, verde pubblico

• → Greek: πάρκο (párko)
• → Sardinian: parcu

• parco² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

parco

1. first-person singular present indicative of parcare

• -carpo, capro, carpo, carpo-, copra, porca

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.ko]

From Proto-Italic *pe-arkō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“off”) + *h₂erk- (“to hold, guard”) (whence arceō).^[1] See also parcus.

Others make it cognate with Ancient Greek σπαρνός (sparnós, “rare”), English spare.

parcō (present infinitive parcere, perfect active pepercī or parsī, supine parsum); third conjugation

1. (+ dative or accusative) to spare, save up, economise

   Synonym: reservo

2. (figuratively, + dative) to forgive someone, have mercy for, to be lenient to

   Synonyms: ignōscō, āmittō, remittō, dōnō, dīmittō, perdōnō, condōnō

   • c. 50 BCE, Publilius Syrus, Sententiae:

     Bonīs nocet quisquis pepercit malīs.

     He does harm to the good, whoever has been lenient to the bad

   • Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti:

     victorque omnibus veniam petentibus civibus peperci.

     ... and victorious, I spared all the citizens desiring pardon.

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.28:

     Non aetate confectis, non mulieribus, non infantibus pepercerunt

     They spared neither old men, women, or children

   • Thomas of Celano, Dies Irae:

     Huic ergo parce, Deus

     Then spare him, O God

3. to let alone, omit

   Synonyms: praetereō, omittō, permittō, āmittō, remittō, neglegō

4. (+ dative or a/ab + ablative) to refrain, abstain, avoid

   Synonyms: ēvādō, ēlūdō, vītō, ēvītō, dētrectō, refugiō, exeō, āversor, abstineō, dēclīnō, fugiō

   Antonyms: dēstinō, intendō, tendō, petō, quaerō, affectō, studeō, spectō, circumspiciō

• Perfect parsī is ante-Classical or post-Classical. Perfect parcuī and future participle parcitūrus are found rarely.

¹At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

• comparcō, compercō, compescō
• parcimōnia, parsimōnia

• Italian: parcere
• → Basque: barkatu
• → Spanish: parcir

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

parcō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of parcus

• parco in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “parco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “parco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• parco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to spare no pains: labori, operae non parcere
    
  • to incur few expenses: sumptui parcere (Fam. 16. 4)
    

From Latin parcus.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: par‧co

parco (feminine parca, masculine plural parcos, feminine plural parcas)

1. scarce

   Synonym: escasso

   Antonym: abundante

   • 1977, Clarice Lispector, A hora da estrela [The Hour of the Star]:

     Aliás o material de que disponho é parco e singelo demais, as informações sobre os personagens são poucas e não muito elucidativas, informações essas que penosamente me vêm de mim para mim mesmo, é trabalho de carpintaria.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. parsimonious, thrifty, economical, frugal

   Synonyms: parcimonioso, econômico

From Latin parcus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾko/ [ˈpaɾ.ko]
• Rhymes: -aɾko
• Syllabification: par‧co

parco (feminine parca, masculine plural parcos, feminine plural parcas)

1. frugal

   Synonym: frugal

• “parco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024