impecunious
PRONUNCIATION: (im-pi-KYOO-nee-uhs)

MEANING: adjective: Having little or no money.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin im- (not) + pecunia (money), from pecus (cattle). Ultimately from the Indo-European root peku- (wealth), which also gave us fee, fief, fellow, peculiar, impecunious, and pecuniary. Earliest documented use: 1596.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Action is eloquence

----------William Shakespeare, impecunious poet and playwright (1564-1616)
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IMPECUNIOUS - a sad but ongoing condition of most imps blush

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