indigence
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, late 14th century, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French indigence (13th century), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin indigentia, from indigentem, form of indigere (“to need”), from indu (“in, within”) + egere (“be in need, want”).[1]
Only relation to antonym affluence is common Latinate suffix + -ence.
Noun
indigence (countable and uncountable, plural indigences)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Related terms
Translations
poverty
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “indigence”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
French
Noun
indigence f (plural indigences)
Old French
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin indigentia.
Noun
indigence oblique singular, f (oblique plural indigences, nominative singular indigence, nominative plural indigences)
- indigence (poverty; lacking)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (indigence, supplement)
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- English terms suffixed with -ence
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