ĕgēnus — Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary

ĕgēnus, a, um, adj. egeo, in want of, in need of, destitute or void of any thing (rare, and mostly poet. for egens). With gen.: (nos) omnium, Verg. A. 1, 599; Liv. 9, 6: omnis spei, Tac. A. 1, 53: aquarum (regio), id. ib. 15, 3 fin.; cf. id. ib. 4, 30: decoris, Sil. 6, 304.— With abl.: commeatu, Tac. A. 12, 46; 15, 12.— Absol.: res, i. e. indigent, needy, necessitous, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 46; id. Poen. 1, 1, 2; Verg. A. 6, 91; 8, 365; 10, 367: frater, Vulg. Deut. 15, 11.— Poor, worthless, beggarly: ad infirma et egena elementa, Vulg. Gal. 4, 9. —Subst. ĕgēnus, i, m., a poor man: et pauper, Vulg. Psa. 34, 10; id. Sir. 4, 4 al. — ĕgēnum, i, n., a poor soil: in egeno, Col. 3, 10, 4; 4, 31, 1.

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