The corpus record — Latin

mendicitas

mendicitas · f

beggary, mendicity, pauperism, indigence

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Where it lives

Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 2 · 1.51/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mendīcĭtas — Lewis & Short

mendīcĭtas, ātis, f.id.,

I beggary, mendicity, pauperism, indigence (rare but class.): qui quidem ad mendicitatem properent se detrudere, Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 21; id. Rud. 2, 6, 30: in summā mendicitate esse, Cic. Rosc. Am. 31, 86: mendicitatem perpeti, id. Fin. 5, 11, 32: paupertatem novā mendicitate revocare, Petr. 125.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mendicitas (scan p. 420; entry #6736).

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