A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

pauper,-eris (adj.B), compar. pauperior,-ius (adj.B), superl. pauperrimus,-a,-um (adj.A): irreglar neuter - pauperum, gen. pl. pauperorum; poor, getting few things, not wealthy; inadequate, deficient, minimal, impoverished; (of things) few, scanty, small, meagre, sparse; “poor in amount, quality or extent, i.e. not wealthy, of small means, that has only enough for his moderate expenses” (Lewis & Short); also may be used opp. frequens,-entis (part.A), ‘frequent, common, dense’ in the sense of infrequent, uncommon, sparse, not dense; cf. indigus, egenus, inops; cf. paucus,-a,-um (adj.A).

Pauper,-eris (s.m/f.III), abl.sg. pauper, nom.& acc.pl. pauperes: a poor man, pauper, the needy, indigent;

Pauperes Commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici Hierosolymitanis, Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem.

- (color) facile eluitur nec diu durat, sufficit tamen pauperoribus pro vestimentis inficiendis (Ray), the color is easily [washed out] nor does it last a long time, yet it is sufficient for poorer people for imparting [a color] to their clothing.

- [usus, ‘uses’] referente Turnero pauperes Northumbri cum porro & cepis cocta folia primo vere comedunt (Dill.), Turner relates that the poor of Northumber at the beginning of spring consume leaves cooked with a scallion and with onions.

- Musci vero palustres viam sternunt per paludes, præsertim Sphagnum 1. &2, quæ & cubilibus inserviunt, nec hæc tantum, sed & Hypna quæcunque farciendis sedilibus & pulvinaribus a pauperibus adhibentur (Dill.); in fact the mosses of swamps extend over [i.e. pave] the road through the swamps, chiefly Sphagnum 1. & 2., which are also used for beds, not only these, but also any [sort of] Hypnum at all are employed by the poor for stuffing chairs and pillows.

- diagnosis auctoris pauperrima (C. Mueller), the diagnosis of the author most deficient.

- e diagnosi pauperrima nec affinitas nec substantia speciei intelligi potest (C. Mueller), neither the affinity nor the substance [i.e. characteristic quality] of the species [i.e. its appearance] can be understood from the most impoverished diagnosis.

- fungus ad Pinum sylvestrem frequentissime cresci, qua non multo pauperius ad Ledum palustre, the fungus grows most densely on Pinus sylvestris, than which not much more scantily [i.e. less densely] on Ledum palustre.

- Orthotrich. punctatum Hook, et Grev. in Brewst. Edinb. Journ. I. p. 119. t. 5. c. ic. pauperrimis (C. Mueller), cum iconibus pauperrimis, with very poor illustrations.

- Orthotrich. recurvifolium Hook, et Grev. Brewst. Edinb. Journ. I. p. 120. t. 5. c. iconibus pauperrimis haud explicabilibus! (C. Mueller), Orthotrichum recurvifolium with extremely inadequate illustrations unexplained.