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Latin
Etymology
From mendīcus + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
mendīcitās f (genitive mendīcitātis); third declension
- beggary, mendicity, pauperism, indigence
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
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