jejunitas

jējūnĭtas, ātis, f. [id.], a fasting, emptiness of stomach.

I.

Lit.:

jejunitatis plenus, anima foetida,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 13. —

B.

Transf., dryness:

calida umoris,

Vitr. 2, 6, 4; 7, 4, 3.—

II.

Trop.

A.

Of speech, dryness, poverty, meagreness:

inopia et jejunitas,

Cic. Brut. 55:

qui jejunitatem et famem se malle quam ubertatem et copiam dicerent,

id. Tusc. 2, 1, 3:

jejunitas et siccitas et inopia,

id. Brut. 82, 285.—

B.

Ignorance of any thing:

bonarum artium,

Cic. de Or. 2, 3, 10.