penuria

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See also: penúria

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pēnūria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈnu.rja/
  • Rhymes: -urja
  • Hyphenation: pe‧nù‧ria

Noun

penuria f (plural penurie)

  1. shortage, lack, scarcity, scarceness
    Synonyms: scarsità, mancanza

Further reading

  • penuria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • penuria in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps related to paene (“almost”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

pēnūria f (genitive pēnūriae); first declension

  1. want, need, scarcity
    Synonyms: egestās, paupertās, dēsīderium, necessitās, inopia, indigentia, ūsus, opus, angustia
    Antonyms: dīvitiae, opulentia
    • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses (Apuleius) 4.28:
      at vērō puellae iuniōris tam praecipua, tam praeclāra pulchritūdō nec exprimī ac ne sufficienter quidem laudārī sermōnis hūmānī pēnūriā poterat.
      but the beauty of the youngest was so marvellous and dazzling that it could neither be expressed nor sufficiently praised by the paucity of human speech.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pēnūria pēnūriae
genitive pēnūriae pēnūriārum
dative pēnūriae pēnūriīs
accusative pēnūriam pēnūriās
ablative pēnūriā pēnūriīs
vocative pēnūria pēnūriae

Descendants

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “paene (> Derivatives > pae/ēnūria)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 439

Further reading

  • “penuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “penuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • penuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pēnūria. Cognate with English penury.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈnuɾja/
  • Rhymes: -uɾja
  • Syllabification: pe‧nu‧ria

Noun

penuria f (plural penurias)

  1. hardship (financial), penury
  2. shortage, lack, dearth
    Synonyms: escasez, falta

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