penuria

See also: penúria

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -urja

Noun

penuria f (plural penurie)

1. shortage, lack, scarcity, scarceness

Synonyms

• scarsità, mancanza

Anagrams

• pianure, prunaie, unipare

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Latin

Etymology

From paene (“almost”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /peːˈnuː.ri.a/, [peːˈnuːriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈnu.ri.a/, [peˈnuːriä]

Noun

pēnūria f (genitive pēnūriae); first declension

1. want, need, scarcity

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pēnūria	pēnūriae
Genitive	pēnūriae	pēnūriārum
Dative	pēnūriae	pēnūriīs
Accusative	pēnūriam	pēnūriās
Ablative	pēnūriā	pēnūriīs
Vocative	pēnūria	pēnūriae

Descendants

• French: pénurie
• Portuguese: penúria
• Spanish: penuria

References

• “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.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 439

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pēnūria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈnuɾja/ [peˈnu.ɾja]

Noun

penuria f (plural penurias)

1. shortage, lack

Synonyms

• escasez
• falta

Further reading

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