pauce

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UK/pɔːs/US/pɔs/cot caught merger/pɑs/

adjective

Subject to or pertaining to paucity (fewness); being scarce or insufficient.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

adjectivepauce (comparative paucer or more pauce, superlative paucest or most pauce)

comparative paucer · comparative more pauce · superlative paucest · superlative most pauce

  1. rareSubject to or pertaining to paucity (fewness); being scarce or insufficient.

    […] although the foraminiferal content is pauce.

    1965–1967, Science Reports, volumes 37-38, Sendai: Tōhoku University, published 1966, page 208
    2 more examples

    Comparable information for the Soviets is pauce; but the authors' observations are stimulating and plausible.

    1983, Political Science Quarterly, volume 98, New York: Academy of Political Science, page 521

    So, although it is often asserted that monocultures lead to increased risks of disease and pest attack, the evidence is pauce.

    1996, Tony Whitten, Roehayat Emon Soeriaatmadja, Suraya A. Afiff, The Ecology of Java and Bali, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1997, page 600

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*peh₂w-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*peh₂ukos
  3. Proto-Italic*paukos
  4. Latinpaucus
  5. Englishpauce

Borrowed from Latin paucus, from Proto-Italic *paukos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ukos, from *peh₂w- + *-kos. Distantly related (via *peh₂w- by Grimm's law) to few.

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APA

pauce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pauce

MLA

“pauce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pauce. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pauce,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pauce.

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