egestas

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eˈɡes.taːs/, [ɛˈɡɛs̠t̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈd͡ʒes.tas/, [eˈd͡ʒɛst̪äs]

Noun

egestās f (genitive egestātis); third declension

1. need, want, poverty

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• egestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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