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“sparing” in Latin
angustusnarrow, close, contracted, constricted, confined, small, not spacious; narrow, strait; short, brieftenuisthin, slender, slim, lank; especially; fine, rare, thin; pure, clear, not coarse; weak, feeble, tenuousexiguusstrict, exact; paltry, inadequate, small, scanty, slight, littleparvussmall; little; puny; cheap; petty; trifling; ignorable; unimportantparcussparing, frugal, thrifty; scanty, slight, little, smallrestringōto draw back tightly, bind back or fast, tighten; to unfasten, unclose, open; to restrain, confine, restricttenāxclinging; tenacious; close-fisted, niggardly, stingyfrūxproduce, crop, fruit; supplies; fruit, result, successmalignuswicked, malicious, stingy; spiteful; malignant, malign
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
sparing
(Of things)(Of things), angustus: tenuis. (The words are found in this connection and order.) tenuis et angustus: exiguus: parvus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) tenuis et exiguus (☞ parcus, in this use of it, only in the poets; the best prose writers apply it exclusively to persons).
(Of persons)(Of persons), parcus (the proper word): restrictus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) parcus et restrictus: tenax. (The words are found in this connection and order.) parcus et tenax: restrictus et tenax: frugi (comparative, frugalior, superlative, frugalissimus; the positive frugalis was not in use): malignus. To be sparing of anything, parce dare aliquid (e.g., civitatem Romanam parcissime dedit, Suet., Oct., 40). So sparing was he of time, tanta alicui erat parsimonia temporis (Plin., Ep., 3, 5, 12).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for sparing?
- The usual Latin words for “sparing” are angustus, tenuis, exiguus; also parvus, parcus, restringō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.