povre

From Latin pauper, paupēris

povre

1. poor
   • 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:

     Le anno passate 46 milliones statouniteses esseva povre.

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

• ric

• povremente
• povressa
• poco
• impovrir

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

From Old French povre, from Latin pauper.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔvrə/, /ˈpoːr(ə)/

povre (inflected form povre, comparative povrer, superlative povreste)

1. poor, needy (lacking resources)
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

• English: poor
• Scots: puir

• “povre (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-29.

povre (uncountable)

1. poor people; the needy

From Latin pauper, pauperem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.vrə/

povre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular povre)

1. poor (lacking resources)

• Middle English: povre (borrowed)
  • English: poor
• French: pauvre
• Norman: pauvre, pouôrre
• Walloon: pôve