probitú

Asturian

FWOTD – 24 June 2013

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾobiˈtu/, [pɾo.β̞iˈt̪u]

Noun

probitú f (uncountable)

1. poverty (quality or state of being poor)
   • 1991, Equipu Bueida, El Pueblo Quirosán: una Unidá Social in Cultures, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 73:

     La probitú podía llegar a ser daqué tan cotidiano que l’aidanza llegaba a ser imprescindible pa dalgunos miembros de la comunidá:

     Poverty could sometimes be something so ordinary that aid would have been indispensable for some of the community’s members:

Synonyms

• probeza

Related terms

• probe