Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
shortage
Latin translation:
penuria / inopia
Added to glossary by
Joseph Brazauskas
May 4, 2006 18:10
18 yrs ago
English term
shortage
English to Latin
Bus/Financial
Economics
Trade
"The colony was struggling to cope with its iron and marble shortages."
I have wracked my brain, such as it is, and searched through various treatises on the subject of Roman economics, but can find no equivilent which even remotely approximates to the modern economic sense of 'shortage', though assuredly these were occasional, if not frequent, in antiquity.
I have wracked my brain, such as it is, and searched through various treatises on the subject of Roman economics, but can find no equivilent which even remotely approximates to the modern economic sense of 'shortage', though assuredly these were occasional, if not frequent, in antiquity.
Proposed translations
(Latin)
5 | penuria / inopia | Leonardo Marcello Pignataro (X) |
Change log
Jan 28, 2010 00:29: Joseph Brazauskas Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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penuria / inopia
Both terms are used for "something lacking" (inopia/penuria loci, locorum, frumenti. aquarum etc.)
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Comment: "I had thought of 'inopia', but 'penuria' didn't occur to me. Thanks again!"
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