paucité

French

Etymology

From Middle French paucité, apparently borrowed in the mid 14th century from Latin paucitās (“a small number, fewness, scarcity”), from paucus (“few, little”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /po.si.te/

Noun

paucité f (plural paucités)

  1. paucity (fewness in number; a small number)

References

  1. ^ “paucité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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