penuria
See also: penúria
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
penuria f (plural penurie)
Further reading edit
- penuria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- penuria in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps related to paene (“almost”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /peːˈnuː.ri.a/, [peːˈnuːriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /peˈnu.ri.a/, [peˈnuːriä]
Noun edit
pēnūria f (genitive pēnūriae); first declension
- want, need, scarcity
- Synonyms: egestās, paupertās, dēsīderium, necessitās, inopia, indigentia, ūsus, opus, angustia
- Antonyms: dīvitiae, opulentia
- c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses (Apuleius) 4.28:
- […] at vērō puellae iuniōris tam praecipua, tam praeclāra pulchritūdō nec exprimī ac ne sufficienter quidem laudārī sermōnis hūmānī pēnūriā poterat.
- […] but the beauty of the youngest was so marvellous and dazzling that it could neither be expressed nor sufficiently praised by the paucity of human speech.
- […] at vērō puellae iuniōris tam praecipua, tam praeclāra pulchritūdō nec exprimī ac ne sufficienter quidem laudārī sermōnis hūmānī pēnūriā poterat.
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pēnūria | pēnūriae |
Genitive | pēnūriae | pēnūriārum |
Dative | pēnūriae | pēnūriīs |
Accusative | pēnūriam | pēnūriās |
Ablative | pēnūriā | pēnūriīs |
Vocative | pēnūria | pēnūriae |
Descendants edit
- English: penury
- French: pénurie
- Italian: penuria
- Portuguese: penúria
- Sicilian: pinùria
- Spanish: penuria
References edit
- “penuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “penuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- penuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 439
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pēnūria. Cognate with English penury.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
penuria f (plural penurias)
Further reading edit
- “penuria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014