Etymology

mendicity

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Today it means: the state of being a beggar; mendicancy or beggary Full definition →

Old French mendicité ← Latin mendicitas
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  1. Latin · derived frommendicitas
  2. Old French · derived frommendicité
  3. English todaymendicity

From Old French mendicité, from Latin mendicitas.

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