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6-letter words (1 found)

PAUPER,

5-letter words (5 found)

PAPER,PAREU,PUPAE,RAPPE,UPPER,

4-letter words (15 found)

APER,PAPE,PARE,PARP,PEAR,PERP,PRAU,PREP,PUER,PUPA,PURE,RAPE,REAP,REPP,UREA,

3-letter words (20 found)

APE,APP,ARE,AUE,EAR,EAU,ERA,PAP,PAR,PEA,PEP,PER,PRE,PUP,PUR,RAP,REP,RUE,URE,URP,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AR,EA,ER,PA,PE,RE,UP,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 51 words from pauper according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pauper

pauper

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɔː.pə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.pɚ/
  • (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɑ.pɚ/
    • Homophone: popper (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpoː.pə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːpə(ɹ)

Noun

pauper (plural paupers)

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

Derived terms

  • pauperism
  • pauperess
  • pauperize

Related terms

  • pauci-

Translations

Verb

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.

See also

  • in forma pauperis

References

Further reading

  • Pauperism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Poverty threshold on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Measuring poverty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

  • poper

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pauper.

Adjective

pauper

  1. poor

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pauper.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pauper m (plural paupers, diminutive paupertje n)

  1. (informal, often derogatory) A pauper.

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

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”.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpau̯.per/, [ˈpäu̯pɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpau̯.per/, [ˈpäːu̯per]

Adjective

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

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

  • 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

  • pauperculus
  • pauperiēs
  • paupertās

Related terms

  • paucus

Descendants

References

Further reading

  • “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.

Middle English

Noun

pauper

  1. Alternative form of paper

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pauper.

Adjective

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

  1. poor

Declension


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