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-penia

  1. a combining form used in the formation of compound words that have the general sense “lack, deficiency,” as specified by the initial element:

    leukopenia.



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Origin of -penia1

< New Latin, combining form representing Greek í poverty, need
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Example Sentences

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Her penia cloth gave way to Chinese silks; her wooden hair combs to expensive ones inlaid with gold, bought at the Spanish bazar down town.

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Rinkeno picture sas, pendom dikkav mande te miri penia te pralia kennā shomas bitti. 

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When the feast was over, Penia or Poverty, as the manner was, came about the doors to beg.

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A design being formed for the recovery of his sight, Penia or poverty opposed it, making it appear that poverty is the mistress of arts, sciences, and virtues, which would be in danger of perishing if all men were rich; but no credit being given to her remonstrance, Plutus recovered his sight in the temple of Æsculapius, whence the temples and altars of other gods, and those of Jupiter himself, were abandoned, the whole world sacrificing to Plutus alone.

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X. The same revelation is inserted in the bull of the saint's     canonization, in the Histories of Zumel, Vargas, Penia, &c.

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