paucité

French

Etymology

From Middle French paucité, apparently borrowed in the mid 14th century from Latin paucitās (“a small number, fewness, scarcity”), from paucus (“few, little”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po.si.te/

Noun

paucité f (plural paucités)

1. paucity (fewness in number; a small number)

Further reading

• “paucité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.