inopia

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See also: inòpia

Italian

Noun

inopia f (plural inopie)

  1. poverty
    Synonym: povertà

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From inops (“helpless, destitute, poor”) +‎ -ia.

Noun

inopia f (genitive inopiae); first declension

  1. want, lack, scarcity, need
    Synonyms: egestās, pēnūria, paupertās, dēsīderium, necessitās, indigentia, ūsus, opus, angustia
  2. helplessness
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative inopia inopiae
Genitive inopiae inopiārum
Dative inopiae inopiīs
Accusative inopiam inopiās
Ablative inopiā inopiīs
Vocative inopia inopiae

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

inopia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of inops
Descendants
  • → Catalan: inòpia (learned)
  • → Italian: inopia (learned)

References

  • “inopia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “inopia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inopia 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
    • (ambiguous) to suffer from want of a thing: inopia alicuius rei laborare, premi
    • (ambiguous) richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia
    • (ambiguous) poverty of expression: inopia verborum
    • (ambiguous) want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: inopia (opp. copia) rei frumentariae

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin inopia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈnopja/
  • Rhymes: -opja
  • Syllabification: i‧no‧pia

Noun

inopia f (plural inopias)

  1. (formal) indigence, poverty
    Synonyms: indigencia, pobreza

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