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Latin
Etymology
From egeō (“I need; I lack”) + -tās. Per de Vaan, the -tās noun must have been built on an unattested s-stem neuter noun Proto-Italic *egos, *eges-; compare tempestas from Proto-Italic *tempos.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
egestās f (genitive egestātis); third declension
- need, want, poverty
- Synonyms: pēnūria, paupertās, dēsīderium, necessitās, inopia, indigentia, ūsus, opus, angustia
- Antonyms: dīvitiae, opulentia
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.21.5:
- Cōgitātiōnēs rōbustī semper in abundantiā: omnis autem piger semper in egestāte.
- The thoughts of the industrious always bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want.
(Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “egeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 186
Further reading
- “egestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “egestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- egestas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- egestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be reduced to (abject) poverty: ad egestatem, ad inopiam (summam omnium rerum) redigi
- to live in poverty, destitution: in egestate esse, versari
- to live in poverty, destitution: vitam in egestate degere
- to be entirely destitute; to be a beggar: in summa egestate or mendicitate esse