escasso

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese escasso, from Vulgar Latin *excarsus, for Latin excerptus, from excerpō. Thus doublet of excerto. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: es‧cas‧so === Adjective === escasso (feminine escassa, masculine plural escassos, feminine plural escassas) scarce, rare sparse, scanty Synonym: disperso ==== Quotations ==== For quotations using this term, see Citations:escasso. ==== Derived terms ==== === 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