inopia

See also: inòpia

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin inopia.

Noun

inopia f (plural inopie)

1. poverty

   Synonym: povertà

Anagrams

• Iapino, apioni, opinai

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪˈnɔ.pi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iˈnɔː.pi.a]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin inops

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin inopia

From inops (“helpless, destitute, poor”) + -ia.

Noun

inopia f (genitive inopiae); first declension

1. want, lack, scarcity, need

   Synonyms: egestās, pēnūria, paupertās, dēsīderium, necessitās, indigentia, ūsus, opus, angustia

2. helplessness

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	inopia	inopiae
genitive	inopiae	inopiārum
dative	inopiae	inopiīs
accusative	inopiam	inopiās
ablative	inopiā	inopiīs
vocative	inopia	inopiae

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

inopia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of inops

Descendants

• → Catalan: inòpia (learned)
• → Italian: inopia (learned)
• → Spanish: inopia (learned)

References

• “inopia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inopia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “inopia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be reduced to (abject) poverty: ad egestatem, ad inopiam (summam omnium rerum) redigi
    
  • (ambiguous) to suffer from want of a thing: inopia alicuius rei laborare, premi
    
  • (ambiguous) richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia
    
  • (ambiguous) poverty of expression: inopia verborum
    
  • (ambiguous) want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: inopia (opp. copia) rei frumentariae
    

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin inops

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin inopialbor.

Spanish inopia

Learned borrowing from Latin inopia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈnopja/ [iˈno.pja]
• Rhymes: -opja
• Syllabification: i‧no‧pia

Noun

inopia f (plural inopias)

1. (formal) indigence, poverty

   Synonyms: indigencia, pobreza

Derived terms

• en la inopia

Further reading

• “inopia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025