povero

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin pauperem. Given that the expect native reflex would have been *popere, this form was likely among the early borrowings into Italian from Gallo-Italic.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ve.ro/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔvero
  • Hyphenation: pò‧ve‧ro

Adjective[edit]

povero (feminine povera, masculine plural poveri, feminine plural povere, superlative poverissimo)

  1. poor (with little or no possessions or money)
    Antonym: ricco
    • 1512, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lettera a Francesco Vettori, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Nacqui povero, ed imparai prima a stentare che a godere.
      I was born poor and I learned how to live in hardship sooner than [I learned] how to enjoy.
  2. poor (to be pitied)

Noun[edit]

povero m (plural poveri, feminine povera)

  1. poor man, pauper
  2. (in the plural) the poor, the needy, poor people

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Maiden, Martin. 1995. A linguistic history of Italian. London: Longman. Chapter 2, §7.2.

Further reading[edit]

  • povero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Neapolitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian povero.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈpɔːvərə], (in sandhi) [-u]

Adjective[edit]

povero (feminine singular povera, plural povere)

  1. poor

References[edit]

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 735: “povero” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Ledgeway, Adam (2009) Grammatica diacronica del napoletano, Tübingen: Niemeyer, page 80