The corpus record — Latin

paupero

paupero · v. a

to make poor

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Where it lives

Aulularia 3 · 4.34/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 5 · 2.33/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
Apologia 4 · 1.86/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

paupĕro — Lewis & Short

paupĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.pauper,

I to make poor, to impoverish (ante- and post-class., and once in Hor.).

I Lit.: boni viri me pauperant, improbi alunt, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 27; Titin. ap. Non. 157, 9; cf. Varr. ib. 11: defectio civium pauperatorum, Sid. Ep. 6, 12.—

II Transf.: aliquem aliquā re, to rob or deprive one of any thing (= spoliare, privare): quam ego tantā pauperavi per dolum pecuniā, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 157, 7: dominum pretio, id. Mil. 3, 1, 134: aliquem cassā nuce, Hor. S. 2, 5, 36: luna pauperata luminibus, Firm. Math. 1, 2.

Where it came from

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