depauperar

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dēpauperāre (“to impoverish”), from Latin dē- + pauperāre (“to impoverish”), from pauper (“poor”). Cognate with Italian depauperare, English depauperate.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.pəw.pəˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [de.paw.peˈɾaɾ]
• Homophone: depauperà

depauperar (first-person singular present depaupero, first-person singular preterite depauperí, past participle depauperat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to impoverish

   Synonym: empobrir

• “depauperar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “depauperar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “depauperar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “depauperar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin depauperare (“to impoverish”), from Latin de- + pauperare (“to impoverish”), from pauper (“poor”). Cognate with Italian depauperare, English depauperate.

depauperar (first-person singular present depaupero, first-person singular preterite depauperei, past participle depauperado)

1. to impoverish

   Synonym: empobrecer

2. to weaken

   Synonym: debilitar

• “depauperar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “depauperar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Medieval Latin depauperare (“to impoverish”), from Latin de- + pauperare (“to impoverish”), from pauper (“poor”). Cognate with Spanish depauperar, English depauperate.

• Hyphenation: de‧pau‧pe‧rar

depauperar (first-person singular present depaupero, first-person singular preterite depauperei, past participle depauperado)

1. (transitive) to impoverish
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Borrowed from Medieval Latin depauperare (“to impoverish”), from Latin de- + pauperare (“to impoverish”), from pauper (“poor”). Cognate with Italian depauperare, English depauperate.

• IPA^(key): /depaupeˈɾaɾ/ [d̪e.pau̯.peˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧pau‧pe‧rar

depauperar (first-person singular present depaupero, first-person singular preterite depauperé, past participle depauperado)

1. (transitive) to impoverish

   Synonym: empobrecer

2. (transitive) to weaken

   Synonyms: debilitar, extenuar

• “depauperar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024