Lewis Short
(adj.Subst.) : ĕgēnus, a, um, adj.egeo
* In want of, in need of, destitute or void of any thing (rare, and mostly poet. for egens).
* With gen.: (nos) omnium,Verg. A. 1, 599; Liv. 9, 6: omnis spei,Tac. A. 1, 53: aquarum (regio),id. ib. 15, 3 fin.; cf. id. ib. 4, 30: decoris,Sil. 6, 304.
* Poor, worthless, beggarly: ad infirma et egena elementa,Vulg. Gal. 4, 9. —Subst.
* Absol.: res,i. e. indigent, needy, necessitous,Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 46; id. Poen. 1, 1, 2; Verg. A. 6, 91; 8, 365; 10, 367: frater,Vulg. Deut. 15, 11.
* Ĕgēnus, i, m., a poor man: et pauper,Vulg. Psa. 34, 10; id. Sir. 4, 4 al.
* Ĕgēnum, i, n., a poor soil: in egeno,Col. 3, 10, 4; 4, 31, 1.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary