paupero
Italian
Noun
paupero m (plural pauperi)
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpau̯.pe.roː/, [ˈpäu̯pɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpau̯.pe.ro/, [ˈpäːu̯pero]
Verb
pauperō (present infinitive pauperāre, perfect active pauperāvī, supine pauperātum); first conjugation
- I impoverish, I make poor
- 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus, IV.vii, Lines 757-758.
- boni me viri pauperant, improbi augent
- The good men impoverish me, the wicked enrich
- 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus, IV.vii, Lines 757-758.
Conjugation
References
- “paupero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “paupero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers