pauper

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːpə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔpɚ/
(US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpɚ/
- Homophone: popper
Rhymes: -ɔːpə(ɹ)

Noun

pauper (plural paupers)

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

Synonyms

(one who is poor): see Thesaurus:pauper

Related terms

Translations

one who is extremely poor

Arabic: فَقِير‎‎ m (faqīr)
Belarusian: жабра́к m (žabrák), галя́к m (halják), бяда́к m (bjadák), бе́дны m (bjédny)
Bulgarian: бедня́к (bg) m (bednják), сирома́х (bg) m (siromáh)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 窮光蛋 (zh), 穷光蛋 (zh) (qióngguāngdàn), 窮鬼 (zh), 穷鬼 (zh) (qióngguǐ)
Czech: chuďas (cs) m, chudák m
Estonian: kerjus
Finnish: rutiköyhä
French: pauvre (fr) m, f, indigent (fr) m
German: Bettelknabe m, Armer m
Greek: πένης (el) m (pénis)
Italian: indigente (it) m, f
Japanese: 貧民 (ja) (ひんみん, hinmin), 貧困者 (ひんこんしゃ, hinkonsha), 貧者 (ja) (ひんじゃ, hinja)
Korean: 빈자 (ko) (binja), 빈민 (ko) (binmin), 극빈자 (ko) (geukbinja)

Maori: pōhara
Polish: biedak (pl) m, nędzarz (pl) m, ubogi (pl) m, żebrak (pl) m
Portuguese: indigente (pt) m, f
Russian: ни́щий (ru) (níščij), бедня́к (ru) m (bednják), бе́дный (ru) m (bédnyj), неиму́щий (ru) (neimúščij), нужда́ющийся (ru) (nuždájuščijsja)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сиромах m

Roman: siromah (sh) m
Slovak: chudák m
Slovene: revež m, berač (sl) m
Spanish: indigente (es) m, f
Swahili: fukara (sw)
Turkish: düşkün (tr), fukara (tr)
Ukrainian: бідня́к (uk) m (bidnják), бі́дний (uk) m (bídnyj)
Yiddish: אָרעמאַן‎‎ m (oreman)

one living on or eligible for public charity

Finnish: sosiaaliturvan varassa elävä (fi) (living on charity); sosiaaliturvaan oikeutettu (fi) (eligible)
German: Unterstützungsempfänger m

Greek: άπορος (el) m (áporos), ζητιάνος (el) m (zitiános)
Italian: indigente (it) m, f

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Dutch: ^{(please verify)} pauper

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

poper

Etymology

From Latin pauper.

Adjective

pauper

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

poor

Inflection

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

Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter	Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Number	Singular		Plural
nominative	pauper		pauperēs	paupera
genitive	pauperis		pauperum
dative	pauperī		pauperibus
accusative	pauperem	pauper	pauperēs	paupera
ablative	paupere		pauperibus
vocative	pauper		pauperēs	paupera

comparative: pauperior, superlative: pauperrimus

Related terms

paucus

Descendants

Asturian: probe
Catalan: pobre
Dalmatian: pauper
English: pauper, poor
Franco-Provençal: pouvro
French: pauvre
Friulian: puar, pùar
Galician: pobre
Istriot: puovari
Italian: povero

Occitan: paure
Portuguese: pobre
Romanian: pauper
Romansch: pauper, pover
Sardinian: poaru, pobaru, poberu
Sicilian: pòviru, pòvuru, povru
Spanish: pobre
Venetian: pore, poro, poaro, povaro

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

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