inopia

Noun

inopia f (plural inopie)

1. poverty

Anagrams

• apioni
• opinai

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /iˈno.pi.a/, [ɪˈnɔ.pi.a]

Noun

inopia f (genitive inopiae); first declension

1. want, lack, scarcity, need

Adjective

inopia

1. nominative neuter plural of inops
2. accusative neuter plural of inops
3. vocative neuter plural of inops

References

• inopia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inopia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inopia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be reduced to (abject) poverty: ad egestatem, ad inopiam (summam omnium rerum) redigi
    
  • (ambiguous) to suffer from want of a thing: inopia alicuius rei laborare, premi
    
  • (ambiguous) richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia
    
  • (ambiguous) poverty of expression: inopia verborum
    
  • (ambiguous) want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: inopia (opp. copia) rei frumentariae
    

Etymology

From Latin inopia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈnopja/

Noun

inopia f (plural inopias)

1. (formal) indigence, poverty

Further reading

• “inopia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.