The corpus record — Latin

pauperculus

poor

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Where it lives

Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

paupercŭlus — Lewis & Short

paupercŭlus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [id.], poor (not in Cic.): senex, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 49: anus, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 44: sumus pauperculi, Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 33; Varr. R. R. 1, 17: mater, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 46: vidua, Vulg. Luc. 21, 2.—Of things: res nostrae sunt, pater, pauperculae, Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 17.

In the wild

paupercula Terence, Heautontimorumenos 1.1
pauperculus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.175
pauperculae Plautus, Epidicus 4.1
pauperculam Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 54.17
pauperculae Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.13
pauperculae Terence, Adelphi 4.5

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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