pauca

pauca

1. inflection of paucus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

paucā

1. ablative feminine singular of paucus

pauca n pl (genitive paucōrum); second declension

1. ellipsis of pauca verba (“a few words”)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:

     Ariovistus ad postulata Caesaris pauca respondit, […]

     • Translation by W. A. McDevitte, W. S. Bohn

       Ariovistus briefly replied to the demands of Caesar, […]

   • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 3.10:

     Itaque nihil de te, quod credideris, de me, quam ob rem non debueris credere, pauca dicam.

     • Translation by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh

       So not a word about you and your having believed it: but about myself I will say a few words as to why you ought not to have believed it.

pauca (not comparable)

1. in a few words, in short
   • 380 CE – 392 CE, Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.2:

     aegre vestigia claritudinis pristinae monstrat admodum pauca

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• "pauca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)