The story
- Latin · derived frompauper“poor”
- Old French · derived fromempoverir
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromempoveriss-
- Middle English · inherited fromempoverishen
- English todayimpoverish
From Middle English empoverishen, impoverishen, empoverischen, enpoverisshen, Anglo-Norman empoveriss-, from Old French empoverir, from em- + povre, from Latin pauper (“poor”) (English poor).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.