exiguo
See also: exíguo
Latin
Noun
exiguō
- dative/ablative singular of exiguus
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin exiguus (“strict, exact, scanty, meager”), from exigō (“to drive out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɡˈsiɡwo/ [eɣ̞ˈsi.ɣ̞wo]
- Rhymes: -iɡwo
- Syllabification: e‧xi‧guo
Adjective
exiguo (feminine exigua, masculine plural exiguos, feminine plural exiguas)
- exiguous, scarce, scanty, meager
- 1903, Godofredo Daireaux, Tipos y paisajes criollos:
- lluvias demasiado frecuentes y abundantes llenan las cañadas, achican el campo, lo reducen a algunas lomas exiguas
- too frequent and abundant rains fill the ravines, shrink the fields and reduce them to a few meager hills
- exiguos fondos ― scanty funds
- exiguos ahorros ― meager savings
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Further reading
- “exiguo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014