escasso

Meaning

  1. scarce, rare
  2. sparse, scanty

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Hyphenated as
es‧cas‧so
Pronounced as (IPA)
/isˈka.su/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese escasso, from Vulgar Latin *excarsus, for Latin excerptus, from excerpō. Thus doublet of excerto.

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