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pauper

English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin pauper (“poor”). Originally a legal term.[1] Doublet of poor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pauper (plural paupers)

  1. One who is extremely poor.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pauper
  2. One living on or eligible for public charity.

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Verb

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pauper (third-person singular simple present paupers, present participle paupering, simple past and past participle paupered)

  1. (transitive) To make a pauper of; to drive into poverty.
    • 2017, Naomi Rawlings, Love's Christmas Hope:
      “There's no sense in you paupering yourself because you're too stubborn to take my money.”

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pauper”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

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Dalmatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin pauper.

Adjective

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pauper

  1. poor

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin pauper.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑu̯.pər/
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  • Hyphenation: pau‧per

Noun

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pauper m (plural paupers, diminutive paupertje n)

  1. (informal, often derogatory) a pauper

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *pawoparos (a thematic adjective, which was switched to the third declension in Latin analogically), from a compound beginning with Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”) (compare English few). The origin of the second element, -per, is less certain, but probably *perh₃- (“to grant, bestow, provide”) (compare Ancient Greek ἔπορον (époron, “to supply, grant, pay”)), therefore the compound meant “providing little”.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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pauper (genitive pauperis, comparative pauperior, superlative pauperrimus); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)

  1. poor
    Synonyms: egens, inops, exiguus
    Antonyms: opulentus, dives, dis, ditis, opulens, locuples, pecuniosus

Declension

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Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative pauper pauperēs paupera
genitive pauperis pauperum
dative pauperī pauperibus
accusative pauperem pauper pauperēs paupera
ablative paupere pauperibus
vocative pauper pauperēs paupera
  • In Late or Vulgar Latin, this third declension adjective seems to have been regularized to first/second declension, like in the attested forms pauperus and paupera

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Learned borrowings

References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pauper”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 451: “PIt. *pau(o)-pa/oro-; PIE *peh₂u-(o-)p(o)rh₃-o-”

Further reading

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  • “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to raise a man from poverty to wealth: aliquem ex paupere divitem facere

Middle English

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Noun

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pauper

  1. Alternative form of paper

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin pauper.

Adjective

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pauper m or n (feminine singular pauperă, masculine plural pauperi, feminine and neuter plural paupere)

  1. poor

Declension

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite pauper pauperă pauperi paupere
definite pauperul paupera pauperii pauperele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite pauper paupere pauperi paupere
definite pauperului pauperei pauperilor pauperelor
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