inopia

Noun

inopia f (plural inopie)

1. poverty

   Synonym: povertà

Anagrams

• Iapino, apioni, opinai

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /iˈno.pi.a/, [ɪˈnɔpiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈno.pi.a/, [iˈnɔːpiä]

Etymology 1

From inops (“helpless, destitute, poor”) +‎ -ia.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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/ [iˈno.pja]
• Rhymes: -opja
• Syllabification: i‧no‧pia

Noun

inopia f (plural inopias)

1. (formal) indigence, poverty

   Synonyms: indigencia, pobreza

Further reading

• “inopia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10