Latin

Noun

egestas f ‎(genitive egestātis); third declension

1. need, want, poverty

Inflection

Third declension.

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “egestas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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