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Participle

egēns (genitive egentis, comparative egentior, superlative egentissimus); third-declension one-termination participle

1. needy, poor

   Synonyms: pauper, inops, exiguus

   Antonyms: opulentus, opulens, dis, dives, ditis, locuples

2. destitute
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneid 4.373–374:

     “[...] Ēiectum lītore, egentem, / excēpī, et rēgnī dēmēns in parte locāvī.”

     “[When he was] cast ashore, destitute, I took him in, and — insanely! — granted him a part in my realm.”

語形変化

Third-declension participle.

When used purely as an adjective.

参照

• “egens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “egens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “egens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.