Adjective: escaso
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | escaso |
| Singular f. | escasa |
| Plural m. | escasos |
| Plural f. | escasas |
Sample Sentences
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quen foy couardo ou quen ardido, ou foy mao ou bõo, ou quen foy uilão ou paação, ou feo ou aposto, ou arrizado ou flaco, ou barnesco ou escasso, ou mãsso ou sañudo (who was coward or who was hardy, or who was bad or good, or who was villein or palatial, or ugly or handsome, or vigorous or feeble, or generous or niggardly, or gentle or wicked) [1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 227:]
Adjectives inflected like escaso
preguiceiro,
metafórico,
perdulário,
metafísico,
anxélico,
serbio,
sañudo,
severo,
seguro,
sedoso,
sabido,
atmosférico,
estremeiro,
romántico,
metódico,
satisfeito,
sonoro,
sollío,
sobexo,
sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese escasso, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *excarsus, for excerptus, from Latin excerpō. Cognate with Portuguese escasso, Spanish escaso, English scarce. See: Portuguese Adjectives '
escasso', Spanish Adjectives '
escaso', English Adjectives '
scarce'.
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