mendicant

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mendicant /ˈmɛndɪk(ə)nt/

▶adjective given to begging.

■ of or denoting a religious order originally dependent on alms.

▶noun a beggar.

■ a member of a mendicant order.

– derivatives
mendicancy noun,
mendicity noun.

– origin ME: from L. mendicant-, mendicare ‘beg’, from mendicus ‘beggar’, from mendum ‘fault’.