puir
See also: puír
Old French
Alternative forms
- puïr (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *putīre, from Classical Latin putēre, present active infinitive of puteō.
Conjugation
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Descendants
- French: puer
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (puir)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /puˈi(ʁ)/ [pʊˈi(h)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈpwi(ʁ)/ [ˈpwi(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /puˈi(ɾ)/ [pʊˈi(ɾ)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈpwi(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /puˈi(ʁ)/ [pʊˈi(χ)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈpwi(ʁ)/ [ˈpwi(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /puˈi(ɻ)/ [pʊˈi(ɻ)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈpwi(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpwiɾ/
- Hyphenation: pu‧ir
Verb
puir (no first-person singular present, no present subjunctive, third-person singular present pui, first-person singular preterite puí, past participle puído)
- (of an object) to wear, to wear out, to deteriorate
- Synonym: desgastar
Conjugation
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Scots
Etymology
From Middle English povre, from Old French povre, from Latin pauper.
Adjective
puir (comparative mair puir, superlative maist puir)
- poor
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- And then she changed her voice and would be as saft as honey: 'My puir wee Ailie, was I thrawn till ye? Never mind, my bonnie. You and me are a' that's left, and we maunna be ill to ither.'
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Derived terms
- puir-man
- puirshoose
- puirtith
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