The corpus record — Latin

paupertinus

paupertinus · adj

poor

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Where it lives

Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

paupertīnus — Lewis & Short

paupertīnus, a, um, adj.pauper,

I poor, sorry (ante- and post-class.), Varr. ap. Non. 162, 23: homo, Gell. 20, 1, 30: litterae, id. 14, 6, 5: cenula, App. M. 3, p. 135, 2: contubernia, Amm. 25, 2, 2: sors, id. 14, 6, 25.—

II Trop.: cor, Arn. 6, 191: ingenium, Symm. Ep. 1, 8 (al. 14).

In the wild

paupertina Tertullian, Ad Nationes 2.17
paupertinas Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.12
paupertino Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.1.30
paupertinis Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.198
paupertinas Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.6.9
paupertina Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.14

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. paupertinus (scan p. 514; entry #8411).

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