inopia

inopia ae, f

inops, want, lack, scarcity : summa omnium rerum, Cs.: loci, L.: argumentorum.— Want, need, indigence, poverty, scarcity, famine : Inopiā Coacta, T.: propter inopiamin egestate esse: amicitia ex inopiā nata: inopiam vitandae causā, Cs.: manuum mercede inopiam tolerare, S.: illius animum inopiā incendere, i. e. by keeping unsatisfied , T.— A scant supply, scarcity : bonorum, S.: loci, L.: dispensatio inopiae, L.— Want, helplessness : inopiā coactus, embarrassment : praesidio esse solitudini atque inopiae, the unprotected .—Of mind or style, poverty, barrenness : inopia et ieiunitas: sermonis.