escaso

scarce, limited, scant, meager, meagre, skimpy, rare, insufficient, slight, slim; low, little, small, poor, weak (in quantity, degree, size, rate or estimate); sparse, scanty, thin

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *escarpsus, from Late Latin excarpsus (“rare”), from *excarpere (“pluck out”), from classical Latin excerpere. Related to English scarce.