mendicus

== Latin == === Etymology === From menda (“physical defect, fault”) + -īcus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛnˈdiː.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [menˈdiː.kus] === Adjective === mendīcus (feminine mendīca, neuter mendīcum, superlative mendīcissimus); first/second-declension adjective beggarly, needy, indigent ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== mendīcitās mendīcō ==== Descendants ==== Asturian: méndigu Galician: mendigo Italian: mendico Portuguese: mendigo Spanish: mendigo === Noun === mendīcus m (genitive mendīcī); second declension beggar, mendicant ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “mendicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “mendicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “mendicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “mendicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers