pauper

Concepts

poor

beggar

needy

poverty-stricken

person without means

destitute

with few means

in need

indigent

necessitous

Opposite of

opulentus, dives, dis, ditis, opulens, locuples, pecuniosus

Synonyms

inops

Translations

pauvre

arm

pobre

povero

pobre

pobre

φτωχός

berooid

arm

فقير

fakir

paure

yoksul

behoeftig

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈpau̯.pɛr]

Etymology

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”.