Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. · To become poor. · To call someone poor.
noun
The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society. · the second-to-last placer in Tycoon
adj
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. · Of low quality. · Worthy of pity. · Deficient in a specified way.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA poor person. · Synonym of poor cod.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-? Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w(o)p(o)rh₃o- Proto-Italic *paw(o)paro-? Latin dīvesinflu. Latin pauper Old French povrebor. Middle English povre English poor Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French and Anglo-Norman povre, poure, from Latin pauper, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper. Displanced native wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”, from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”, from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)) and almost fully arm.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionpovre,povereenm
- Derivation mentionpauperla
- Derivation mention*peh₂w-ine-pro · few, small
- Cognate mentionunlǣdeang
- Non-cognate comparisonunledeenm · poor
- Cognate mentionunweli,unwelyenm
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