Where does “pouvre” come from?

pouvre (Middle French) comes from Old French povre, from Latin pauper, from Latin pavo-pars, from Proto-Indo-European pau- — smallness.

pouvre (Middle French): poor

Definitions

  1. poor

Ancestry of “pouvre”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpovrepoor
2Latinpauperpoor
3Latinpavo-parsgetting little
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpau-smallness
Every word from Proto-Indo-European pau- →Every word from Latin pavo-pars →Every word from Latin pauper →