pauce

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin paucus. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɔːs/ (General American) IPA(key): /pɔs/ (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /pɑs/ Rhymes: -ɔːs === Adjective === pauce (comparative more pauce, superlative most pauce) (rare) Subject to or pertaining to paucity; being scarce or insufficient. 1966, Tōhoku Daigaku. Science Reports, v.37-38 1965-1967, Tōhoku University: 1966, page 208 […] although the foraminiferal content is pauce. 1983, Academy of Political Science (U.S.) Political Science Quarterly; New York, v.98 (1983-84), page 521 Comparable information for the Soviets is pauce; but the authors' observations are stimulating and plausible. == Latin == === Adjective === pauce vocative masculine singular of paucus