pauper — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

Fragments 1 · 151.52/10k
Epilogus 1 · 74.07/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 73.8/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 38.76/10k
Chabrias 1 · 20.45/10k
Phocion 1 · 18.76/10k
Cimon 1 · 18.66/10k
Aulularia 9 · 13.03/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 35 · 8/10k
Parentalia 2 · 7.7/10k
Elegiae 9 · 7.29/10k
Ad Uxorem 3 · 7.22/10k

Densest 12 of 115 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. pauper — de Vaan

pauper 'poor' [adj. r] (PL+) Derivatives: pauperies 'poverty' (Lex XII+), pauperium 'id/ (CaeciL), paupertas 'id.' (PL+), pauperculus 'poor' (PL+), pauperfinus 'poverty-stricken' (Vairo+), — [de Vaan, s.v. pauper, p. 465]

2. pauper — Lewis & Short

pauper, pĕris (

I fem. paupera, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 12, 519, called obsolete by Varr. L. L. 8, § 77 Müll.—Neutr. pauperum, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 1, 33.—Gen. plur. pauperorum, Petr. 46 dub.; Inscr. ex Ann. p. Chr. n. 341: AMATOR PAVPERORVM, ap. Fea, Framm. de' Fasti Cons. p. 90), adj. root pau- of pau=ros (cf. paucus, etc.), and per- of pario, pe-per-i, producing little, poor, i. e. not wealthy, of small means, that has only enough for his moderate expenses (cf.: indigus, egenus, inops).—Absol.: pauper, cui opera vita erat, ruri fere Se continebat, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 16: qui (judices) saepe propter invidiam adimunt diviti, Aut propter misericordiam addunt pauperi, id. ib. 2, 1, 47: optavit honeste in patriā pauper vivere, id. And. 4, 5, 3: servus domini pauperis, id. Eun. 3, 2, 33; Cic. Par. 6, 3, 50: sisne ex pauperrimo dives factus, id. Vatin. 12, 29: si abundans opibus pauperem se vocet, Quint. 11, 1, 21: quod Aeque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus aeque, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 25.—With in and abl.: meo sum pauper in aere, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 12.—

(b) With gen.: horum Semper ego optarim pauperrimus esse bonorum, Hor. S. 1, 1, 79: pauper Opimius argenti positi intus et auri, id. ib. 2, 3, 142: aquae, id. C. 3, 30, 11.— Subst.: pauper, ĕris, comm., a poor man: pauperum tabernae, Hor. C. 1, 4, 13: pauperum cenae, id. ib. 3, 29, 14: pauperum sepulcra, id. Epod. 17, 47: pauperiorum turbae, id. S. 1, 1, 111.—

2 Of things, poor, scanty, inconsiderable, small, meagre (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).—Absol.: pauperes res inopesque, Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 24: ager, Tib. 1, 1, 23 (19): mensa, id. 1, 1, 37: pauperis tuguri culmen, Verg. E. 1, 69: domus, id. A. 12, 519: et carmen venā pauperiore fluit, Ov. P. 4, 2, 20: pauper pudor, Phaedr. 2, 1, 14: nomina pauperis aevi, Luc. 10, 151: eloquentia, Quint. 10, 5, 5.— With gen.: pauper sulci cerealis Abella, Sil. 8, 545.—With abl.: exemplis pauperior, App. Flor. fin.—

B Transf., for egenus, needy, indigent: homo Pauper, qui educit in egestate liberos, Caecil. ap. Gell. 2, 23, 21: inopes ac pauperes, Cic. Par. 6, 3, 52.—

II Trop., poor, feeble, intellectually (very rare; cf. miser, misellus): miser enim et (ut ita dicam) pauper orator est, qui, etc., Quint. 8 prooem. § 28.—

(b) Pauperes spiritu, i. e. humble, Vulg. Matt. 5, 3.—Hence, adv., poorly; in comp.: pauperius incedit, Tert. Cult. Fem. 11 fin.

In the wild

pauperis Claudian, de bello Gildonico 1.109
Pauper Lucan, Pharsalia 9.519
pauperum Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 2.179
pauperibus Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 8.6
pauperum Apuleius, Apologia 19
pauper Martial, Epigrammata 7.10.4

6 of 519 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. pauper (scan p. 465; entry #1278).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pauper (scan p. 752; entry #12570).

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