pauper

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pauper (“poor”)[1] (whence also poor), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”) (English few).

Pronunciation

Noun

pauper (plural paupers)

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

Synonyms
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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>
  <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/pauper' title='pauper'>pauper</a>
  <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
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References
  1. “pauper” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

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
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpau̯.per/, [ˈpau̯.pɛr]

Adjective

pauper (genitive pauperis); third declension

  1. poor

Inflection

Third declension, non-i-stem (genitive plural in -um).

Number Singular Plural
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

Descendants

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

Middle English

Noun

pauper

  1. Alternative form of paper
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