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Webster 1913 Edition
Pauper
Pau′per
,Noun.
[L. See
Poor
.] A very poor person; one without any means of support, especially one dependent on private or public charity. Also used adjectively;
as,
. pauper
immigrants, pauper
laborWebster 1828 Edition
Pauper
PAUP'ER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
pauper
pauper
English
Noun
pauper (plural paupers)
- One who is extremely poor.
- One living on or eligible for public charity.
Synonyms
- (one who is poor): see Wikisaurus:pauper
Related terms
Translations
one who is extremely poor
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one living on or eligible for public charity
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Latin
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”) (English few).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpau̯.per/, [ˈpau̯.pɛr]
Adjective
pauper m, f, n (genitive pauperis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension, non-i-stem (genitive plural in -um).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | pauper | pauperēs | paupera | ||
| genitive | pauperis | pauperum | |||
| dative | pauperī | pauperibus | |||
| accusative | pauperem | pauper | pauperēs | paupera | |
| ablative | paupere | pauperibus | |||
| vocative | pauper | pauperēs | paupera | ||
- comparative: pauperior, superlative: pauperrimus
Related terms
Descendants
References
- pauper in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pauper in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pauper”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to raise a man from poverty to wealth: aliquem ex paupere divitem facere
- to raise a man from poverty to wealth: aliquem ex paupere divitem facere