pauper

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔː.pə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.pɚ/
• (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑ.pɚ/

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  • Homophone: popper (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.pə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːpə(ɹ)

pauper (plural paupers)

1. One who is extremely poor.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pauper

   • 1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History, New York: Pantheon Books, page 132:

     He has hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, and he lives like a pauper!

2. One living on or eligible for public charity.

• pauperism
• pauperess
• pauperize

• pauci-

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.”

• in forma pauperis

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

• poper

Learned borrowing from Latin pauper.

pauper

1. poor

Borrowed from Latin pauper.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑu̯.pər/

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• Hyphenation: pau‧per

pauper m (plural paupers, diminutive paupertje n)

1. (informal, often derogatory) A pauper.

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]

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

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

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

• pauperculus
• pauperiēs
• paupertās

• paucus

• “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
    

pauper

1. Alternative form of paper

Borrowed from Latin pauper.

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

1. poor