ĕgēnus
a, um, adj.
I.
in want of, in need of, destitute or void of any thing (rare, and mostly poet. for egens).
(a).
With gen.: (nos) omnium, Verg. A. 1, 599; Liv. 9, 6: omnis spei, Tac. A. 1, 53: aquarum (regio), id. ib. 15, 3 fin.; cf. id. ib. 4, 30: decoris, Sil. 6, 304.—
(b).
With abl.: commeatu, Tac. A. 12, 46; 15, 12.—
(g).
Absol.: res, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 46; id. Poen. 1, 1, 2; Verg. A. 6, 91; 8, 365; 10, 367: frater, Vulg. Deut. 15, 11.—
II.
Poor, worthless, beggarly: ad infirma et egena elementa, Vulg. Gal. 4, 9. —Subst.
A.
ĕgēnus, i, m., a poor man: et pauper, Vulg. Psa. 34, 10; id. Sir. 4, 4 al. —
B.
ĕgēnum, i, n., a poor soil: in egeno, Col. 3, 10, 4; 4, 31, 1.