scarce
Oznaczający (Angielski)
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- Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
- Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
Synonimy
not often
be rare
very rare
be uncommon
few remaining
be scanty
thinlyscattered hair
a few times
Częstotliwość
Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/ˈskɛəs/
Etymologia (Angielski)
In summary
From Middle English scarce, skarce, scarse, scars, from Old Northern French scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a Late Latin *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (“take out”), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to trace. Compare Middle Dutch schaers (“sparing, niggard”), Middle Dutch schaers (“a pair of shears, plowshare”), scheeren (“to shear”).
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