pauvre
Meaning
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- poor (financially deprived)
- lacking, scanty
- poor, pitiable
- Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/povʁ/
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French pauvre, relatinisation of earlier povre, from Old French povre, inherited from Latin pauper, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”).
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