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meagre

Meaninglean

Common meaning: scanty or insufficient

Journey through time

  1. Latinmacrum‘lean’source
  2. Frenchmaigre‘lean’source
  3. Middle Englishmegresource
  4. Englishmeaning shiftslean → scanty or insufficientmeagre‘scanty or insufficient’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin macrum ‘lean’.

Roots

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