honestas
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From either honestus (“honored, having or deserving honor”) or honor (“honour”) + -(i)tās; in the former case, this would be a haplological form of *honestitās.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hoˈnes.taːs/, [hɔˈnɛs̠t̪äːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈnes.tas/, [oˈnɛst̪äs]
Noun[edit]
honestās f (genitive honestātis); third declension
- respectability
- honor, honour, honorableness
- (by extension) (honorable) character, integrity, probity, virtue
- wealth
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | honestās | honestātēs |
| Genitive | honestātis | honestātum |
| Dative | honestātī | honestātibus |
| Accusative | honestātem | honestātēs |
| Ablative | honestāte | honestātibus |
| Vocative | honestās | honestātēs |
Descendants[edit]
(Many descendants had the ending of the medieval inherited word analogized following the descendant of -itās.)
- Catalan: honestedat
- Italian: onestà
- Old French: honesté
- Occitan: onestetat
- Piedmontese: onestà
- Portuguese: honestidade
- Old Spanish: onestat, onestad
- Spanish: honestad, honestidad
- Sicilian: unistà
- Romanian: onestitate, onestate (obsolete)
Verb[edit]
honestās
References[edit]
- “honestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “honestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- honestas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- honestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to deviate from the path of virtue: honestatem deserere
- to deviate from the path of virtue: honestatem deserere
Portuguese[edit]
Adjective[edit]
honestas f pl
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
honestas f pl
Verb[edit]
honestas
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