povre

From Latin pauper, paupēris.

povre

1. poor
   • 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:

     Le anno passate 46 milliones statouniteses esseva povre.

     Last year 46 million U.S. Americans were poor.

• ric

• povremente
• povressa
• poco
• impovrir

• povere, poevre, pore, poere, pouer, poor

From Old French povre, from Latin pauper.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔvrə/, /ˈpoːr(ə)/

povre (plural and weak singular povre, comparative povrer, superlative povreste)

1. poor, needy (lacking resources)
2. poor by choice (for religious reasons)
3. Afflicted by need and want; affected by poverty
4. low-quality, dismal, inadequate
5. unimportant, little
6. unworthy, wretched, miserable

• English: poor
• Scots: puir
• Yola: boor

• “povre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 March 2018.

povre (uncountable)

1. poor people; the needy

From Latin pauper.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔvɾə/

povre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular povre)

1. poor (lacking resources)

• French: pauvre
• Norman: pauvre, pouôrre
• Walloon: pôve
• → Middle English: povre
  • English: poor
  • Scots: puir
  • Yola: boor

povre m or f (masculine and feminine plural povres)

1. obsolete spelling of pobre