adverb
paulum1
paulum (not comparable)
№ 872 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparablea little, somewhat
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
paulum, breve spatiumpaululum — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 24 and Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 20
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- actio paulum claudicat
- the delivery is rather halting, poor.
paulum (paull-), adv., v. 1. paulus
I. fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
paulum (not paull-), adv.
paulus, a little, somewhat : concede paulum istuc, a little way , T.: paulum a fugā aberant, S.: supra eum locum, Cs.: differre: paulum aspectu conterritus haesit, V.: paulum praelabitur ante, a little before .
Origins
Adverbial accusative of paulus.