escaso

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese escasso, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *excarsus, for excerptus, from Latin excerpō. Cognate with Portuguese escasso, Spanish escaso, English scarce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [esˈkɑsʊ]

Adjective

escaso m (feminine singular escasa, masculine plural escasos, feminine plural escasas)

1. scarce, rare
2. sparse, scanty
3. foolish, injudicious
4. niggardly, miserly
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 227:

     quen foy couardo ou quen ardido, ou foy mao ou bõo, ou quen foy uilão ou paação, ou feo ou aposto, ou arrizado ou flaco, ou barnesco ou escasso, ou mãsso ou sañudo

     who was coward or who was hardy, or who was bad or good, or who was villein or palatial, or ugly or handsome, or vigorous or feeble, or generous or niggardly, or gentle or wicked

Derived terms

• escasamente
• escaseza

References

• “escasso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “escas” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “escaso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “escaso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “escaso” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *escarpsus, from Late Latin excarpsus (“rare”), from *excarpere (“pluck out”), from classical Latin excerpere. Related to English scarce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkaso/ [esˈka.so]
• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧so

Adjective

escaso (feminine escasa, masculine plural escasos, feminine plural escasas)

1. scarce, limited, scant, meager, meagre, skimpy, rare, insufficient, slight, slim
2. low, little, small, poor, weak (in quantity, degree, size, rate or estimate)
3. sparse, scanty, thin

Derived terms

• escaso margen (“narrow margin, little room”)

 

Derived terms

• escasear

 

Related terms

• escasez

 

Further reading

• “escaso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014