mendicitas

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Latin

Etymology

From mendīcus +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

Noun

mendīcitās f (genitive mendīcitātis); third declension

  1. beggary, mendicity, pauperism, indigence

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mendīcitās mendīcitātēs
Genitive mendīcitātis mendīcitātum
Dative mendīcitātī mendīcitātibus
Accusative mendīcitātem mendīcitātēs
Ablative mendīcitāte mendīcitātibus
Vocative mendīcitās mendīcitātēs

Descendants

  • → French: mendicité (learned)
  • Italian: mendicità
  • Spanish: mendicidad

References

  • “mendicitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mendicitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mendicitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be entirely destitute; to be a beggar: in summa egestate or mendicitate esse
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