The corpus record — Latin

egenus

egenus · adj

in want of

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Where it lives

Epilogus 1 · 74.07/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Contra Symmachum 3 · 2.5/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Adversus Marcionem 8 · 0.97/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĕgēnus — Lewis & Short

ĕgēnus, a, um, adj.egeo,

I in want of, in need of, destitute or void of any thing (rare, and mostly poet. for egens).

(a) With gen.: (nos) omnium, Verg. A. 1, 599; Liv. 9, 6: omnis spei, Tac. A. 1, 53: aquarum (regio), id. ib. 15, 3 fin.; cf. id. ib. 4, 30: decoris, Sil. 6, 304.—

(b) With abl.: commeatu, Tac. A. 12, 46; 15, 12.—

(g) Absol.: res, i. e. indigent, needy, necessitous, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 46; id. Poen. 1, 1, 2; Verg. A. 6, 91; 8, 365; 10, 367: frater, Vulg. Deut. 15, 11.—

II Poor, worthless, beggarly: ad infirma et egena elementa, Vulg. Gal. 4, 9. —Subst.

A ĕgēnus, i, m., a poor man: et pauper, Vulg. Psa. 34, 10; id. Sir. 4, 4 al. —

B ĕgēnum, i, n., a poor soil: in egeno, Col. 3, 10, 4; 4, 31, 1.

In the wild

egeno Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.31.1
egenis Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.24
egenum Tacitus, Annales 12.p47
egenum Tacitus, Annales 12.p20
egenis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.36
egenis Plautus, Captivi 2.3

6 of 57 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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