penuria

pēnūrĭa or paenūrĭa, ae, f. [Gr. penomai, to toil; penês, poor; cf. spanis, peina], want, need, scarcity of any thing (class.; syn.: inopia, egestas).

I.

Lit., esp. of want of the necessaries of life; constr. with or (less freq.) without a gen.:

cibi,

Lucr. 5, 1007:

victūs,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 98:

edendi,

Verg. A. 7, 113:

aquarum,

Sall. J. 17, 5:

rerum necessariarum,

id. ib. 23, 2:

frumenti,

Liv. 4, 25. — Absol.:

neque enim est umquam penuria parvi,

he is never in want who requires but little, Lucr. 5, 1119:

penuriam temporum sustinere,

to supply their temporary wants, Col. 9, 14, 17:

in penuriā,

in time of scarcity, Plin. 18, 13, 34, § 130:

afflixit te penuriā,

Vulg. Deut. 8, 3; 28, 48.—Of want of other things:

civium,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 88:

magna sapientium civium bonorumque penuria,

Cic. Brut. 1, 2:

cujus generis (amicorum) est magna penuria,

id. Lael. 17, 62:

liberorum,

Sall. J. 22, 2:

mulierum,

Liv. 1, 9:

agri, vectigalium, pecuniae,

Cic. Inv. 2, 39, 115:

argenti,

Liv. 23, 21:

arborum,

Col. 7, 9, 7.—

II.

Trop.:

consilii,

Plin. 8, 6, 6, § 17:

vivae vocis,

Gell. 14, 2, 1.