Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

paucity

 

fewness (small number); scarcity (small amount)

 

Always able to laugh at himself, old Jim used to say that his corpulence made up for a paucity of brain cells.

 

Latin root words: paucitas, paucitatis, f. - a small number, scarcity; pauci, paucae, pauca - few 

 

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