paupertas

Derived from pauper (“poor”) +‎ -tās (“-ty”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pau̯ˈpɛr.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pau̯ˈpɛr.t̪as]

paupertās f (genitive paupertātis); third declension

1. the state of being poor, poverty; need, indigence

   Synonyms: egestās, pēnūria, dēsīderium, necessitās, inopia, indigentia, ūsus, opus

   Antonyms: dīvitiae, opulentia

2. (figuratively) the state of being poor or lacking in the sense of something needed or desired
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.4:

     Nōn possum dīcere nihil perdere, sed quid perdam et quārē et quemadmodum dīcam; causās paupertātis meae reddam.

     I cannot claim to waste nothing, but I can say what I waste and how; I can explain the causes of my poverty.
     (The financially wealthy Seneca writes with playful irony about a perceived lack of time and admits that it is something he doesn’t always spend wisely.)

Third-declension noun.

• paupertātula

• “paupertas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paupertas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "paupertas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• paupertas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• paupertas in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016