escaso

== Galician == === Alternative forms === escasso (reintegrationist) === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese escasso, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *excarsus, for excerptus, from Latin excerpō. Cognate with Portuguese escasso, Spanish escaso, English scarce. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /esˈkaso/ [es̺ˈkɑ.s̺ʊ] Rhymes: -aso Hyphenation: es‧ca‧so === Adjective === escaso (feminine escasa, masculine plural escasos, feminine plural escasas) scarce, rare sparse, scanty foolish, injudicious niggardly, miserly ==== Derived terms ==== escasamente escaseza === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “escasso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “escas”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escaso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escaso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escaso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN == Spanish == === Etymology === Inherited from Vulgar Latin *escarpsus, from Late Latin excarpsus (“rare”), from *excarpere (“pluck out”), from classical Latin excerpere. Related to English scarce. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /esˈkaso/ [esˈka.so] Rhymes: -aso Syllabification: es‧ca‧so === Adjective === escaso (feminine escasa, masculine plural escasos, feminine plural escasas) scarce, limited, scant, meager, meagre, skimpy, rare, insufficient, slight, slim low, little, small, poor, weak (in quantity, degree, size, rate or estimate) sparse, scanty, thin ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “escaso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025