The corpus record — Latin

egestas

egestas · f

indigence

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Where it lives

Catilina 8 · 7.5/10k
Trinummus 6 · 6.1/10k
Historiae 2 · 4.93/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 2 · 4.62/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 6 · 4.53/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 3 · 3.97/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Asinaria 3 · 3.71/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Thyestes 2 · 3.18/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k

Densest 12 of 82 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĕgestas — Lewis & Short

ĕgestas, ātis, f.egeo,

I indigence, extreme poverty, necessity, want (very freq. and class.; for syn. cf.: indigentia, inopia, penuria, paupertas, mendicitas): ista paupertas, vel potius egestas ac mendicitas, Cic. Parad. 6, 1, 45; Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 2; id. Trin. 2, 2, 57; 77; 4, 2, 5 al.; Cic. Rosc. Am. 49 fin.; id. Cat. 2, 11 fin.; id. Inv. 1, 47, 88; * Caes. B. G. 6, 24, 4; Verg. G. 1, 146; 3, 319; id. A. 6, 276 et saep.; cf. in plur.: egestates tot egentissimorum hominum, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 5.—Of inanimate things: patrii sermonis, Lucr. 1, 832; 3, 260; cf. linguae, id. 1, 139; and: animi, Cic. Pis. 11. —With an object-genitive, want of something: pabuli, Sall. J. 44, 4; cf. cibi, Tac. A. 6, 23: rei familiaris, Suet. Vit. 7: rationis, want of knowledge, i. e. ignorance, Lucr. 5, 1211.

In the wild

egestas Vergil, Georgicon 3.319
egestate Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.54.5
egestate Plautus, Asinaria 1.3
egestatem Terence, Phormio 2.3
egestatem Sallust, Jugurtha 14.p6
egestate Cicero, In L. Catilinam 2.25

6 of 170 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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