egestas Latin · revision 8436

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁eǵ-es-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɛˈɡɛs.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [eˈd͡ʒɛs.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''egestās''' ''f'' (genitive egestātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from an old s-stem noun ⟨*egos, *eges-⟩ “need”, from the root of [[egeō]] “to lack”, with the suffix [[-tās]], like [[tempestās]] from ⟨*tempos⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs [[itc-pro|*egos|t=need]], [[ine-pro|*h₁eǵ-es-|t=lack, need]], and compares [[osc|egmo|t=matter, case]] and [[non|ekla|t=lack]], while finding the root etymology not very convincing.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan's first source is Plautus, whom Köbler dates c. 250–184 BC.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant extreme poverty, destitution, as in Plautus, and with a genitive a shortage of something, as in Lucretius, and Tacitus has ''egestāte cibī'' “for want of food”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant need, want, poverty.^(Stelten 1995) Bede and other British Medieval Latin writers used it for need and destitution.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of a shortage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Extreme [[m|en|poverty]], destitution.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A shortage, want (of something).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[egeō]]

+ * [[egēnus]]

+ * [[indigeō]]

+ * [[indigentia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}