parvis

1. 1.

   a courtyard or portico in front of a building (especially a cathedral)

   Broadercourt

Other forms of parvis

plural

parvises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about parvis

What does parvis mean?

parvis means "a courtyard or portico in front of a building (especially a cathedral)".

How many syllables are in parvis?

parvis has 2 syllables and divides as par-vis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.