pauper

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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)

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

Synonyms

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Translations

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References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pauper”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading


Dalmatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin pauper.

Adjective

pauper

  1. poor

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (few, small) (English few).

Pronunciation

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

Descendants

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

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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

Middle English

Noun

pauper

  1. Alternative form of paper