pauper
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pauper (“poor”)[1] (whence also poor), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”) (English few).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɔːpə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɔpɚ/
- (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɑpɚ/
- Homophone: popper
- 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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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/few' title='few'>few</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/paucal' title='paucal'>paucal</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/paucality' title='paucality'>paucality</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/pauce' title='pauce'>pauce</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/pauci-' title='pauci-'>pauci-</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/paucity' title='paucity'>paucity</a>
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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/pauperism' title='pauperism'>pauperism</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/pauperize' title='pauperize'>pauperize</a>
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/poor' title='poor'>poor</a>
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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
- “pauper” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
Further reading
Pauperism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Poverty threshold on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Measuring poverty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”) (English few).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpau̯.per/, [ˈpau̯.pɛr]
Inflection
Third declension, non-i-stem (genitive plural in -um).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | pauper | pauper | pauperēs | paupera | |
Genitive | pauperis | pauperis | pauperum | pauperum | |
Dative | pauperī | pauperī | pauperibus | pauperibus | |
Accusative | pauperem | pauper | pauperēs | paupera | |
Ablative | paupere | paupere | pauperibus | pauperibus | |
Vocative | pauper | pauper | pauperēs | paupera |
- comparative: pauperior, superlative: pauperrimus
- 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
- Galician: pobre
- 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, 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
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