penuria

See also: penúria

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pēnūria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈnu.rja/
  • Rhymes: -urja
  • Hyphenation: pe‧nù‧ria

Noun

penuria f (plural penurie)

  1. shortage, lack, scarcity, scarceness
    Synonyms: scarsità, mancanza

Further reading

  • penuria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • penuria in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

  • paenūria

Etymology

Perhaps related to paene (“almost”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

pēnūria f (genitive pēnūriae); first declension

  1. want, need, scarcity
    Synonyms: egestās, paupertās, dēsīderium, necessitās, inopia, indigentia, ūsus, opus, angustia
    Antonyms: dīvitiae, opulentia
    • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses (Apuleius) 4.28:
      […] at vērō puellae iūniōris tam praecipua, tam praeclāra pulchritūdō nec exprimī ac ne sufficienter quidem laudārī sermōnis hūmānī pēnūriā poterat.
      […] but the beauty of the youngest was so marvellous and dazzling that it could neither be expressed nor sufficiently praised by the paucity of human speech.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pēnūria pēnūriae
genitive pēnūriae pēnūriārum
dative pēnūriae pēnūriīs
accusative pēnūriam pēnūriās
ablative pēnūriā pēnūriīs
vocative pēnūria pēnūriae

Descendants

  • English: penury
  • French: pénurie
  • Italian: penuria
  • Portuguese: penúria
  • Romanian: penurie
  • Sicilian: pinùria
  • Spanish: penuria

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “paene (> Derivatives > pae/ēnūria)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 439

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pēnūria. Cognate with English penury.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈnuɾja/ [peˈnu.ɾja]
  • Rhymes: -uɾja
  • Syllabification: pe‧nu‧ria

Noun

penuria f (plural penurias)

  1. hardship (financial), penury
  2. shortage, lack, dearth
    Synonyms: escasez, falta

Further reading

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