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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Twelve Tables|origins=ine-pro *peh₂w-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [pau̯ˈpɛ.ri.eːs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [pau̯ˈpɛː.ri.es]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''pauperiēs''' ''f'' (genitive pauperiēī); fifth declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|pauper|-iēs|t1=poor]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs ⟨pauper⟩ as Proto-Italic ⟨*pau(o)-pa/oro-⟩, [[ine-pro|*peh₂u-(o-)p(o)rh₃-o-|t=providing little]], related to [[parvus]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's earliest source is the Twelve Tables, and Gaffiot cites Ennius and Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates the Twelve Tables c. 450 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant poverty, as in Ennius, Plautus, Terence, Virgil and Horace, and Lewis & Short note that it is poetic and post-Augustan for the classical [[paupertās]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In law, ''pauperiem facere'' was said of an animal causing loss by damage or injury, as in Ulpian.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means poverty, misery.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for poverty.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 450 BC – The Twelve Tables use it.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of poverty.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of damage by an animal.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # [[m|en|poverty|alt=Poverty]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # ''(law)'' Loss caused by an animal.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[pauper]]
+ * [[paupertās]]
+ * [[parvus]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}