egenus Latin · revision 9478

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɛˈɡeː.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [eˈd͡ʒɛː.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''egēnus''' (feminine egēna, neuter egēnum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is probably from ⟨*egesnos⟩, from the neuter ⟨s⟩-stem ⟨*egos⟩ “need” with the suffix ⟨-nus⟩, like [[egestās]] “poverty”; it is related to [[egeō]] “to lack”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan reconstructs [[itc-pro|*egos|t=need]], from [[ine-pro|*h₁eǵ-es-|t=lack, need]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is Plautus, whom he dates c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant needy, in want, and with a genitive or ablative destitute of, lacking, as in Virgil, and Lewis & Short call it rare and mostly poetic, for ''egēns''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical and Medieval Latin it meant needy, poor.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it also as a noun, a pauper, and for poor in spirit.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of lacking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|needy|alt=Needy]], poor.^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # Destitute of, lacking.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|pauper]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[egenulus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[egeō]]

+ * [[egestās]]

+ * [[indigus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}