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Latin
Etymology
From pauper + -iēs.
Pronunciation
Noun
pauperiēs f (genitive pauperiēī); fifth declension
- poverty
- Synonyms: angustia, paupertās, egestās, indigentia, pēnūria, cāritās, dēficientia, miseria, inopia, dēsīderium, necessitās
- Antonyms: dīvitiae, opulentia
- injury, damage
- Synonyms: damnum, maleficium, incommoditās, dētrīmentum, calamitās, iniūria, fraus, vulnus, noxa
- Antonyms: beneficium, favor
- I loss
- Synonyms: āmissiō, damnum, dētrīmentum, calamitās
Declension
Fifth-declension noun, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “pauperies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pauperies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pauperies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pauperies”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin