pauper

English

Etymology

From Latin pauper (“poor”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈpɔːpə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈpɔpɚ/
• (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA: /ˈpɑpɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːpə(ɹ)

Noun

pauper (plural paupers)

1. One who is extremely poor.
2. One living on or eligible for public charity.

Translations

one who is extremely poor

• Bulgarian: бедняк (bg) (bednják) m, сиромах (bg) (siromáh) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 窮光蛋 (cmn), 穷光蛋 (cmn) (qióngguāngdàn), 窮鬼 (cmn), 穷鬼 (cmn) (qióngguǐ)

• Finnish: rutiköyhä (fi)
• French: pauvre (fr) m and f, indigent (fr) m

• German: Bettelknabe (de) m, Armer (de) m
• Japanese: 貧民 (ja) (ひんみん, hinmin), 貧困者 (ja) (ひんこんしゃ, hinkonsha)
• Polish: biedak (pl) m, nędzarz (pl) m, ubogi (pl) m
• Russian: нищий (ru) (níščij), бедняк (ru) (bednják) m, бедный (ru) (bédnyj) m, неимущий (ru) (neimúščij), нуждающийся (ru) (nuždájuščijsja)

one living on or eligible for public charity

• Finnish: sosiaaliturvan varassa elävä (fi) (living on charity); sosiaaliturvaan oikeutettu (fi) (eligible)
• German: Unterstützungsempfänger (de) m

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Translations to be checked

• Estonian: kerjus
• Italian: povero (it)
• Dutch: pauper (nl)

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin pauper.

Adjective

pauper

1. Poor.

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Latin

Adjective

pauper m, f, n, (genitive pauperis); third declension

1. Poor.

Inflection

Third declension, variation of one ending (3:1E), parasyllabic i-stem variant.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case \ Gender	M.F.	N.		MM.FF.	NN.
nominative	pauper	pauper		pauperēs	paupera
genitive	pauperis	pauperis		pauperum	pauperum
dative	pauperī	pauperī		pauperibus	pauperibus
accusative	pauperem	pauper		pauperēs	paupera
ablative	paupere	paupere		pauperibus	pauperibus
vocative	pauper	pauper		pauperēs	paupera

Descendants

Catalan: pobre Dalmatian: pauper English: pauper, poor French: pauvre Friulian: pùar Italian: povero

Occitan: paure Portuguese: pobre Romanian: pauper Romansch: pauper, pover Sardinian: poaru, pobaru, poberu Spanish: pobre

References

• pauper in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879