inedia, ae, f. 2. in-edo, 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.