# De Lingva Latina 5.17

Varro, De Lingva Latina, Book 5. Latin.

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Quae a fortuna vocabula, in his quaedam minus aperta ut pauper, dives, miser, beatus, sic alia. Pauper a paulo lare. Mendicus a minus, cui cum opus est minus nullo est. Dives a divo qui ut deus nihil indigere videtur. Opulentus ab ope, cui eae opimae; ab eadem inops qui eius indiget, et ab eodem fonte copis ac copiosus. Pecuniosus a pecunia magna, pecunia a pecu: a pastoribus enim horum vocabulorum origo.

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