egestas

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /eˈɡes.taːs/, [ɛˈɡɛs.taːs]

Noun

egestās f (genitive egestātis); third declension

  1. need, want, poverty

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative egestās egestātēs
Genitive egestātis egestātum
Dative egestātī egestātibus
Accusative egestātem egestātēs
Ablative egestāte egestātibus
Vocative egestās egestātēs

References
  • 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, 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
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