meager
英検準1級乏しい・わずかな
意味
- やせた,やせこけた
- 乏しい,不十分な
例文
It was difficult to live on his meager earnings.
彼のわずかな稼ぎで暮らしていくのは困難だった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), West Frisian meager (“meager”), Dutch mager (“meager”), German mager, Old Norse magr whence the Icelandic magur, Norwegian Bokmål mager and Danish mager. Doublet of maigre.