mendicitas

Latin

Etymology

From mendīcus +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /menˈdiː.ki.taːs/, [mɛn̪ˈd̪iːkɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /menˈdi.t͡ʃi.tas/, [men̪ˈd̪iːt͡ʃit̪äs]

Noun

mendīcitās f (genitive mendīcitātis); third declension

1. beggary, mendicity, pauperism, indigence

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mendīcitās	mendīcitātēs
genitive	mendīcitātis	mendīcitātum
dative	mendīcitātī	mendīcitātibus
accusative	mendīcitātem	mendīcitātēs
ablative	mendīcitāte	mendīcitātibus
vocative	mendīcitās	mendīcitātēs

Descendants

• → French: mendicité (learned)
• Italian: mendicità
• Spanish: mendicidad

References

• “mendicitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mendicitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mendicitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be entirely destitute; to be a beggar: in summa egestate or mendicitate esse