pauper
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin pauper (“poor”)[1] (whence also poor), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”) (English few).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔːpə(ɹ)
Noun
pauper (plural paupers)
- One who is extremely poor.
- One living on or eligible for public charity.
Synonyms
- (one who is poor): see Thesaurus:pauper
Related terms
Related terms
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Translations
one who is extremely poor
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one living on or eligible for public charity
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pauper”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
Pauperism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Poverty threshold on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Measuring poverty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dalmatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
pauper
Latin
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”) (English few).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpau̯.per/, [ˈpäu̯pɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpau̯.per/, [ˈpäːu̯per]
Adjective
pauper (genitive pauperis, comparative pauperior, superlative pauperrimus); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | pauper | pauperēs | paupera | ||
Genitive | pauperis | pauperum | |||
Dative | pauperī | pauperibus | |||
Accusative | pauperem | pauper | pauperēs | paupera | |
Ablative | paupere | pauperibus | |||
Vocative | pauper | pauperēs | paupera |
- In Late or Vulgar Latin, this third declension adjective seems to be regularized to first/second declension, like in the attested forms pauperus and paupera
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Asturian: probe
- Catalan: pobre
- Franco-Provençal: pouvro
- Friulian: puar, pùar
- Istriot: puovari
- Italian: povero
References
- “pauper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pauper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pauper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to raise a man from poverty to wealth: aliquem ex paupere divitem facere
- to raise a man from poverty to wealth: aliquem ex paupere divitem facere
Middle English
Noun
pauper
- Alternative form of paper
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