escasso
Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese escasso, from Vulgar Latin *excarsus, for Latin excerptus, from excerpō. Thus doublet of excerto.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /isˈka.su/, /esˈka.su/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʃˈka.su/, /eʃˈka.su/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /esˈka.so/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /(i)ʃˈka.su/
- Hyphenation: es‧cas‧so
Adjective
escasso (feminine escassa, masculine plural escassos, feminine plural escassas)
- scarce, rare
- A água é escassa nesta área.
- Water is scarce in this area.
- O tempo está a ficar escasso.
- Time is running out.
- sparse, scanty
- Synonym: disperso
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:escasso.
Derived terms
- escassamente
- escassez
Further reading
- “escasso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “escasso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026