escaso
Meaning
- scarce, rare
- sparse, scanty
- foolish, injudicious
- niggardly, miserly
Frequency
Hyphenated as
es‧ca‧so
Pronounced as (IPA)
/esˈkaso/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese escasso, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *excarsus, for excerptus, from Latin excerpō. Cognate with Portuguese escasso, Spanish escaso, English scarce.
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