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Italian
Noun
paupero m (plural pauperi)
- pauper, somebody who is extremely poor
- Synonym: povero
Latin
Etymology
From pauper + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
pauperō (present infinitive pauperāre, perfect active pauperāvī, supine pauperātum); first conjugation
- to impoverish, to make poor
- 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus, IV.vii, Lines 757-758.
boni me viri pauperant, improbi augent- The good men impoverish me, the wicked enrich
Conjugation
References
- “paupero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “paupero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers