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egestate

egestate is a Latin form of egestas, meaning “poverty, need”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 47 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.24.4: Nunc quod in eadem inopia, egestate, patientia qua Germani permanent, eodem victu et cultu corporis utuntur; Gallis autem provinciarum propinquitas et transmarinarum rerum notitia multa ad copiam atque usus largitur,

All forms of egestas (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.