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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [pau̯ˈpɛr.taːs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [pau̯ˈpɛr.tas]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''paupertās''' ''f'' (genitive paupertātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[pauper]] “poor” with the suffix [[-tās]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Nonius reports Varro's derivation from ⟨pecūnia parva⟩ “small money”.^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Ennius, of poverty.^(OLD 2012) Köbler also starts with Ennius, whom he dates 204–169 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant poverty, small means, and Lewis and Short and Gaffiot stress that it is weaker than ''egestās'' or ''inopia'', meaning modest circumstances.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) It is personified, and in Cicero it is used of the poverty of the Latin language.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein explains that ''paupertās'' is only narrowness of means, which obliges one to economize, opposed to ''dīves''.^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ In Medieval Latin it meant a lack of something, and the little one has.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it also of low social status.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''povertà'' and French ''pauvreté'', and through Old French ''poverte'' it gave [[en|poverty]] in the late 12th century.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it of poverty.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the poverty of language.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 12th century – English ''poverty'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # [[m|en|Poverty]], small means, also personified.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Scanty means.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Poverty of language.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[paupertatula]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[pauper]]
+ * [[pauperāscō]]
+ * [[pauperculus]]
+ * [[pauperiēs]]
+ * [[pauperius]]
+ * [[pauperō]]
+ * [[paupertīnus]]
+ * [[egestās]]
+ * [[inopia]]
+ * [[en|poverty]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}