## Meanings
1. Having little money or few possessions.
2. Of low quality; not good enough.
3. Deserving sympathy or pity.
4. People who have little money, considered as a group.

## Examples
- They were so poor that they couldn't afford shoes.
- That was a poor performance.
- Oh, you poor thing, you're soaked!
- The new law aims to help the poor.

## Derived Forms
- antipoor
- cash-poor
- dirt-poor
- europoor
- fuel-poor
- impoor
- income-poor
- iron-poor
- land-poor
- metal-poor
- nonpoor
- oxygen-poor

## Related Forms
- few
- paucal
- pauci-
- paucity
- pauper

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *peh₂w-
- Root: povre
- Root: pauper
- Root: *pavo-pars

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper. Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).

## AI Etymology
Poor is inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper. Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)). In present-day English it covers having little money or few possessions, of low quality; not good enough, and deserving sympathy or pity. The wider family includes derived forms such as antipoor, cash-poor, dirt-poor, europoor, fuel-poor and related forms such as few, paucal, pauci-, paucity.

## Topics
- Money & Finance

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