escaso

Meaning

1. scarce, limited, scant, meager, meagre, skimpy, rare, insufficient, slight, slim
2. low, little, small, poor, weak (in quantity, degree, size, rate or estimate)
3. sparse, scanty, thin

Hyphenated as

es‧ca‧so

Pronounced as (IPA)

/esˈkaso/

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *escarpsus, from Late Latin excarpsus (“rare”), from *excarpere (“pluck out”), from classical Latin excerpere. Related to English scarce.