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Egesta, ae, f., the Greek name of Segesta (sc. Ἔγεστα), Fest. p. 340, 5 Müll.
ĕgestas, ātis, f. [egeo], indigence, extreme poverty, necessity, want (very freq. and class.; for syn. cf.: indigentia, inopia, penuria, paupertas, mendicitas): ista paupertas, vel potius egestas ac mendicitas, Cic. Parad. 6, 1, 45; Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 2; id. Trin. 2, 2, 57; 77; 4, 2, 5 al.; Cic. Rosc. Am. 49 fin.; id. Cat. 2, 11 fin.; id. Inv. 1, 47, 88; * Caes. B. G. 6, 24, 4; Verg. G. 1, 146; 3, 319; id. A. 6, 276 et saep.; cf. in plur.: egestates tot egentissimorum hominum, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 5.
Of inanimate things: patrii sermonis, Lucr. 1, 832; 3, 260; cf. linguae, id. 1, 139; and: animi, Cic. Pis. 11.
With an object-genitive, want of something: pabuli, Sall. J. 44, 4; cf. cibi, Tac. A. 6, 23: rei familiaris, Suet. Vit. 7: rationis, want of knowledge, i. e. ignorance, Lucr. 5, 1211.
ēgestĭo, ōnis, f. [egero], a carrying out or off, an emptying, voiding (post-Aug. and rare): cadaverum et ruderum, Suet. Ner. 38: ventris et urinae, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 10; for which simply egestio, Suet. Claud. 44 fin.; Veg. Vet. 5, 14, 6: publicarum opum, a wasting, squandering, Plin. Ep. 8, 6, 7.
* ēgestīvus, a, um, adj. [egero].
In medic. lang., purgative: vis, Macer de Anetho, 14.
ĕgestōsus, a, um, adj. [egestas], very poor, indigent, Aur. Vict. Epit. 12 al.
1. ēgestus, a, um, Part., from egero.
2. ēgestus, ūs, m. [egero], a carrying out, emptying, voiding (post-Aug. and very rare): alto egestu penitus cavare terras, Stat. S. 4, 3, 42: ventris, Sen. Q. N. 3, 30, 4.