puir

== Middle English == === Adjective === puir alternative form of pure == Middle French == === Etymology === Vulgar Latin *putio. === Verb === puir to smell (bad); to stink == Old French == === Alternative forms === puïr (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French) === Etymology === From Vulgar Latin *putīre, from Classical Latin putēre. === Verb === puir to smell (bad); to stink ==== Conjugation ==== This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide. ==== Descendants ==== French: puer === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “puir”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC. == Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: pu‧ir === Verb === puir (no first-person singular present, no present subjunctive, third-person singular present pui, first-person singular preterite puí, past participle puído) (of an object) to wear, to wear out, to deteriorate Synonym: desgastar ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “puir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “puir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Scots == === Etymology === From Middle English povre, from Old French povre, from Latin pauper. === Pronunciation === (Central Scots) IPA(key): [peːr], (conservative dialects) [pøːr] (Northern Scots) IPA(key): [piːr] === Adjective === puir (comparative mair puir, superlative maist puir) poor ==== Derived terms ====