povre
Middle English
/ˈpɔvrə/
adj
Definitions
- poor, needy lacking resources
- poor by choice for religious reasons
- Afflicted by need and want; affected by poverty
- low-quality, dismal, inadequate
- unimportant, little
- unworthy, wretched, miserable
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French povre derived from Latin pauper (poor).
Origin
Latin
pauper
Gloss
poor
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antipoor English
- dirt-poor English
- impoor English
- nonpoor English
- pauper English
- poor English
- poor dab English
- poorhouse English
- poorish English
- poorling English
- poorly English
- poormouth English
- poorness English
- semipoor English
- ultrapoor English
- pauper Latin
- pauper, pauperem Latin
- pauperculus Latin
- pauperies Latin
- paupero Latin
- paupertas Latin
- povero Italian
- paupériser French
- pauvre French
- pobre Spanish, Castilian
- probe Spanish, Castilian
- *pau- Proto-Indo-European
- *peh₂w- Proto-Indo-European
- *ph₁w- Proto-Indo-European
- poverly Middle English
- poverté Old French
- povre Old French
- povrement Old French
- pover Middle Dutch
- povra Ido
- pauvre Norman
- pouôrre Norman
- pobreza Old Portuguese
- puir Scots
- pövou Ligurian
- pauper Dalmatian
- *pavo-pars Old Latin
- povre Interlingua