The corpus record — Latin

jejunitas

jejunitas · f

a fasting, emptiness of stomach

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Where it lives

Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

jējūnĭtas — Lewis & Short

jējūnĭtas, ātis, f.id.,

I a fasting, emptiness of stomach.

I Lit.: jejunitatis plenus, anima foetida, Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 13. —

B Transf., dryness: calida umoris, Vitr. 2, 6, 4; 7, 4, 3.—

II Trop.

A Of speech, dryness, poverty, meagreness: inopia et jejunitas, Cic. Brut. 55: qui jejunitatem et famem se malle quam ubertatem et copiam dicerent, id. Tusc. 2, 1, 3: jejunitas et siccitas et inopia, id. Brut. 82, 285.—

B Ignorance of any thing: bonarum artium, Cic. de Or. 2, 3, 10.

In the wild

ieiunitas Cicero, Brutus 202
ieiunitas Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.6.4.p1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.