Pauperization
/ˌpɔːpəraɪˈzeɪʃən/noun
The process of making someone or something poor or impoverished.
Did you know?Pauperization comes from Latin pauper, a word for “poor” that also gave English pauper, so the term literally names the process of turning someone into a pauper.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Italic
PII
*pauperos
“poor, having little”
Latin
Latin
pauper
“poor, needy, lacking means”
Late Latin
Latin
pauperizāre
“to make poor”
Old French
Old French
pauperiser
“to impoverish”
16th–17th Century
English
pauperization
“the act or process of making poor”
Modern English
English
pauperization
“the process of becoming or being made poor”
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