- pauper
- \ \ see POOR
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pauper — PAUPÉR, Ă, pauperi, e, adj. (livr.) Lipsit de mijloace de existenţă; ajuns în mizerie, în stare de sărăcie; foarte sărac. – Din lat. pauper. Trimis de valeriu, 03.02.2004. Sursa: DEX 98 PAUPÉR adj. v. biet, nenorocit, nevoiaş, sărac, sărman.… … Dicționar Român
pauper — pau·per / pȯ pər/ n: a person who is destitute and relying on charity; specif: a person who is relieved of the costs and expenses of a court proceeding because of poverty Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. pauper … Law dictionary
pauper — pau‧per [ˈpɔːpə ǁ ˈpɒːpər] noun [countable] LAW a person who has no money at all and has to depend on other people for support: • The court will refuse to grant pauper status to frivolous (= not serious or sensible ) petitions … Financial and business terms
pauper — (n.) 1510s, person destitute of property or means of livelihood, from L. pauper poor, from pre L. *pavo pars getting little, from pau , root of paucus little + parere get, produce (see PARE (Cf. pare)). Originally in English a legal word, from… … Etymology dictionary
Pauper — Pau per, n. [L. See {Poor}.] A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Pauper — Pauper, lat., pauvre (pohwr), frz., arm; Paupertät, pauvreté (pohwreteh), Armuth; p.ies, der von einem vierfüßigen Thiere angerichtete Schaden. zu dessen Ersatz die actio de pauperie gegen den Eigenthümer … Herders Conversations-Lexikon
pàuper — m publ. sociol. siromah, bijednik, ubogar ✧ {{001f}}lat … Veliki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika
pauper — pàuper m DEFINICIJA publ. sociol. siromah, bijednik, ubogar ETIMOLOGIJA lat … Hrvatski jezični portal
pauper — [n] person who is poor almsperson, bankrupt, beggar, bum, dependent, destitute, down and out*, have not*, homeless person, indigent, insolvent, in the gutter*, lazarus*, mendicant, poor person, supplicant; concept 423 Ant. rich, wealthy … New thesaurus
pauper — ► NOUN 1) a very poor person. 2) historical a recipient of public charity. DERIVATIVES pauperism noun pauperize (also pauperise) verb. ORIGIN from Latin, poor … English terms dictionary
pauper — [pô′pər] n. [L, poor person, POOR] 1. Historical a person who lives on charity, esp. on tax supported charity 2. any person who is extremely poor … English World dictionary
