pauper

English

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin pauper (“poor”) (whence also poor), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”) (English few).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːpə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔpɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpɚ/
  • Homophone: popper
• Rhymes: -ɔːpə(ɹ)

Noun

pauper (plural paupers)

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

Synonyms

• (one who is poor): see Thesaurus:pauper

Related terms

• pauperism

Related terms

English terms prefixed with pauci-

Translations

one who is extremely poor

• Arabic: فَقِير (ar) m (faqīr)
• Belarusian: жабра́к m (žabrák), галя́к m (halják), бяда́к m (bjadák), бе́дны m (bjédny)
• Bulgarian: бедня́к (bg) m (bednják), сирома́х (bg) m (siromáh)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏲ ᎢᏳᏛᎿᏕᎩ (uyo iyudvhnadegi)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: chuďas (cs) m, chudák m
• Estonian: kerjus
• Finnish: rutiköyhä (fi)
• French: pauvre (fr) m or f, indigent (fr) m
• German: Bettelknabe m, Armer (de) m
• Greek: πένης (el) m (pénis)

  Ancient: πένης m (pénēs)

• Italian: indigente (it) m or f, poveraccio (it) m, povero (it) m, nullatenente (it) m, bisognoso (it) m
• Japanese: 貧民 (ja) (ひんみん, hinmin), 貧困者 (ひんこんしゃ, hinkonsha), 貧者 (ja) (ひんじゃ, hinja)
• Korean: 빈자 (ko) (binja), 빈민 (ko) (binmin), 극빈자 (ko) (geukbinja)
• Maori: pōhara
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fattiglem n

• Polish: biedak (pl) m, nędzarz (pl) m, ubogi (pl) m, żebrak (pl) m
• Portuguese: indigente (pt) m or f
• Russian: ни́щий (ru) (níščij), бедня́к (ru) m (bednják), бе́дный (ru) m (bédnyj), неиму́щий (ru) (neimúščij), нужда́ющийся (ru) (nuždájuščijsja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сиромах m

  Roman: siromah (sh) m

• Slovak: chudák m
• Slovene: revež m, berač (sl) m
• Spanish: indigente (es) m or f
• Swahili: fukara (sw)
• Swedish: fattiglapp (sv) c, fattighjon (sv)
• Turkish: düşkün (tr), fukara (tr)
• Ukrainian: бідня́к (uk) m (bidnják), бі́дний (uk) m (bídnyj)
• Westrobothnian: ,
• Yiddish: אָרעמאַן m (oreman)

one living on or eligible for public charity

• Finnish: sosiaaliturvan varassa elävä (living on charity); sosiaaliturvaan oikeutettu (eligible)
• German: Unterstützungsempfänger m
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• Greek: άπορος (el) m (áporos), ζητιάνος (el) m (zitiános)
• Italian: indigente (it) m or f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} pauper (nl)
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Further reading

• Pauperism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Poverty threshold on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Measuring poverty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• poper

Etymology

From Latin pauper.

Adjective

pauper

1. poor

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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)

1. poor

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

Number	Singular			Plural
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

• pauperculus
• pauperiēs
• paupertās

Related terms

• paucus

Descendants

• Asturian: probe
• Catalan: pobre
• Franco-Provençal: pouvro
• Friulian: puar, pùar
• Istriot: puovari
• Italian: povero

• Occitan: paure
• Old French: povre
  • → Middle English: povre
    • English: poor
    • Scots: puir
  • French: pauvre
  • Norman: pouôrre, pauvre
  • Walloon: pôve
• Old Galician-Portuguese: pobre
  • Fala: pobri
  • Galician: pobre
  • Portuguese: pobre
• Romansch: pover
• Sardinian: poaru, pobaru, poberu
• Sicilian: pòviru, pòvuru, povru
• Spanish: pobre
• Venetian: pore, poro, poaro, povaro
• → Dalmatian: pauper
• → English: pauper
• → Romanian: pauper
• → Romansch: pauper

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
    

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Middle English

Noun

pauper

1. Alternative form of paper