scarce

• adj. 足りない、不十分な；まれな
• adv.だけ；ほとんど；全く

古ノルド語フランス語のscars（乏しい、まばらな）から、ヴァルガ?ラテン語の *scarsus diminutive, diminishing, ラテン語 excerpere の過去分詞形、ex-, outward, -cerp, to pull out, to cut, excerpt, harvest と語源的には同じ。

scarce

scarce: [13] Scarce comes via Anglo-Norman scars, earlier escars, from Vulgar Latin *excarpsus ‘picked out’, hence ‘rare’. This was the past participle of *excarpere, an alteration of classical Latin excerpere ‘picked out. select’ (source of English excerpt [17]). And excerpere was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and carpere ‘pluck’ (source of English carpet and related to harvest).
=> carpet, excerpt, harvest

scarce (adj.)

c. 1300, "restricted in quantity," from Old North French scars "scanty, scarce" (Old French eschars, Modern French échars) from Vulgar Latin *scarsus, from *escarpsus, from *excarpere "pluck out," from classical Latin excerpere "pluck out" (see excerpt). As an adverb early 14c. from the adjective. Phrase to make oneself scarce "go away" first attested 1771, noted as a current "cant phrase." Related: Scarcely.

1. In some places maps are scarce ，and are often crudely produced.

地図が少ない場所もあり、通常は粗く描かれています。

2.Why is full-frontal male nudity still so scarce in films？

なぜ男性の正面**のレンズは映画ではそんなに珍しいのだろうか。

3.It probably would be a good idea if you made yourself scarce .

は避けたほうがいい。

4.Fresh food is so scarce that prices have rocketed.

新鮮な食べ物が非常に欠乏し、価格が急騰した。

5. Scarce water resources are shared between states who cannot trust each other.

希少な水資源は、相互に信頼されていない2つの国で共有されています。