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pobreza.

poverty (quality or state of being poor)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/poˈbɾe.zɐ/Brazil/puˈbɾe.zɐ/Portugal[puˈβɾe.zɐ]Portugal/puˈbɾe.zɐ/Portugal, Southern
  1. poverty (quality or state of being poor)

    feminine · uncountable
  2. a lack; a deficiency

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese pobreza, from pobre (“poor”) + -eza (“-ness; -ity”), from Latin pauper (“poor”), from *pavo-pars (“getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *pau- (“smallness”). By surface analysis, pobre + -eza.

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