I.an abstaining from food, fasting (class.): “tenebrae oboriuntur, genua inediā succidunt,” Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 30: “vigiliis et inedia necatus,” Cic. Fin. 5, 27, 82: “inediam sustinere,” Cels. 1, 3: inediā vitam finire, i. e. to starve one's self to death, Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 1; cf.: “inediā mori,” Gell. 3, 10, 15.— In plur.: “inedias durare,” Plin. 11, 54, 118, § 283.
ĭnĕdĭa , ae, f. 2. in-edo,