Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An enclosed courtyard or space at the entrance to a building, especially a cathedral, that is sometimes surrounded by porticoes or colonnades.
- n. One of the porticoes or colonnades surrounding such a space.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vacant inclosed space of greater or less extent before a church (often slightly raised), and under the jurisdiction of the church authorities; also, the outer court of a palace or great house.
- n. A room over a church porch employed as a school-room or a storage-room, or as a lodging for some ecclesiastic.
- n. A church porch, where lawyers were in the habit of meeting for consultation; specifically, the portico of St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
Wiktionary
- n. An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral.
- n. A portico surrounding such a space.
- n. The porch of a church, or the room over it.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a courtyard or portico in front of a building (especially a cathedral)
Etymologies
- From Anglo-Norman parvis, Middle French parvis, from Late Latin paradisus ("paradise") (used in the Middle Ages to describe the court in front of St Peter's in Rome, and later similar courts in front of other churches). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, alteration of pareis, paradise, from Late Latin paradīsus, garden, paradise; see paradise. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Saturnina a Rascetta per mediam manum decurrens, usque ad radicem montis Saturni, a parvis lineis intersecta, arguit melancholicos.”
“Fluvius hic illustris, humanarum rerum imago, quae parvis ductae sub initiis, in immensum crescunt, et subito evanescunt.”
“As we trooped out of St. Peter's basilica that day, spreading our amaranthine stain over the great parvis, a palpable euphoria thrilled through the entire body.”
“** Un groupe de samouraïs passait devant un temple sur le parvis duquel se prélassait un chat.”
“Transibo per omnes pecudes tuas hodie, removendo inde omne pecus parvum punctis parvis respersum, et respersum maculis latis: et omnem agnum rufum in ovibus et respersum maculis latis, et respersum punctis parvis in capris: et erit merces mea.”
“Et fuit, in tempore quo coibant pecudes, levavi oculos meos, et vidi in somnio, et ecce hirci majores ascendebant super capras variegatas, punctis parvis respersas, et maculis latis respersas.”
“Et dixit, Leva nunc oculos tuos, et vide omnes hircos majores ascendentes super capras lineis distinctas, punctis parvis respersas, et maculis latis respersas: vidi enim omnia, quae Laban facit tibi.”
“Et coibant pecudes prope virgas, et pariebant pecudes foetus lineis distinctos, et punctis parvis respersos, et maculis latis respersos.”
“Et testificabitur mihi justitia mea die crastino, quum venerit ad mercedem meam coram to: quicquid non erit punctis parvis respersum, et maculis latis respersum in capris, et rufum in ovibus, furto ablatum erat a me.”
“Removit itaque in die illa hircos minores variegatos, et maculis latis respersos, et omnes capras punctis parvis respersas, et maculis latis respersas, omne in quo erat candor, et omne rufum in ovibus, et dedit in manus filiorum suorum.”
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