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noun
  1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
  2. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
(webster) Translations:
  • Dutch: armoede
  • French: pauvreté
  • German: Armut
  • Italian: povertí
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: pobreza
    (trans-bottom) (checktrans)
    (trans-top, Translations to be checked)
Etymology: From poverte, from Old French, from Latin paupertas, paupertÄs, from pauper ("poor") + -tas (noun of state suffix).Cognates include pauper, poor, French pauvreté'''.

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