povre

Interlingua

Etymology

Derived from French pauvre, Italian povero, Portuguese pobre and Spanish pobre, all from Latin pauper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpov.re/

Adjective

povre

1. poor
   • 2012 September–October, Panorama in Interlingua, volume 25, number 5, →ISSN, page 24:

     Le anno passate 46 milliones statouniteses esseva povre.

     Last year 46 million U.S. Americans were poor.

Antonyms

• ric

Related terms

• impovrimento
• impovrir
• poco
• povremente
• povressa
• povretto

Further reading

• Alexander Gode (1951), Interlingua-English: A Dictionary of the International Language, New York: Storm Publishers, →OL

Middle English

Alternative forms

• povere, poevre, pore, poere, pouer, poor

Etymology

From Old French povre, from Latin pauper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔvrə/, /ˈpoːr(ə)/

Adjective

povre (plural and weak singular povre, comparative povrer, superlative povreste)

1. poor, needy (lacking resources)
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew v:[3]:

     Blessed are the povre in sprete: for theirs is the kyngdome of heven.

2. poor by choice (for religious reasons)
3. Afflicted by need and want; affected by poverty
4. low-quality, dismal, inadequate
5. unimportant, little
6. unworthy, wretched, miserable

Descendants

• English: poor
• Scots: puir
• Yola: boor

References

• “povre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 March 2018.

Noun

povre (uncountable)

1. poor people; the needy

Old French

Etymology

From Latin pauper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔvɾə/

Adjective

povre m (feminine povre)

1. poor (lacking resources)

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	povres	povre	povre
	oblique	povre			povre	povre
plural	subject	povre	povres		povre
	oblique	povres			povres	povre

Descendants

• French: pauvre
• Norman: pauvre, pouôrre
• Walloon: pôve
• → Middle English: povre, povere, poevre, pore, poere, pouer, poor
  • English: poor
  • Scots: puir
  • Yola: boor

Spanish

Adjective

povre m or f (masculine and feminine plural povres)

1. obsolete spelling of pobre