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exiguous (ik-SIG-yoo-uhs) - adj., scanty, meager, insufficient; (Bot.) small and narrow.
An exiguous income. Adopted around 1650 from Latin exiguus, scanty/meager but originally strict/exact, from exigere, to measure (against a standard)/demand/drive out, from ex-, out + agere, to drive. So just a few examples of metaphoric extensions transmuting the meaning.
---L.
An exiguous income. Adopted around 1650 from Latin exiguus, scanty/meager but originally strict/exact, from exigere, to measure (against a standard)/demand/drive out, from ex-, out + agere, to drive. So just a few examples of metaphoric extensions transmuting the meaning.
---L.
