honestus

Latin

Etymology

From honor (“honor or honour, esteem”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hoˈnes.tus/, [hɔˈnɛs.tʊs]

Adjective

honestus (feminine honesta, neuter honestum); first/second declension

1. Full of or regarded with honor or honour; honorable or honourable, of high birth, noble, distinguished, respectable, eminent.
2. Bringing or deserving honor or honour; worthy, creditable, respectable; decent, virtuous.
3. (of one's appearance) Fine, handsome, beautiful, becoming, noble.

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	honestus	honesta	honestum		honestī	honestae	honesta
genitive	honestī	honestae	honestī		honestōrum	honestārum	honestōrum
dative	honestō		honestō		honestīs
accusative	honestum	honestam	honestum		honestōs	honestās	honesta
ablative	honestō	honestā	honestō		honestīs
vocative	honeste	honesta	honestum		honestī	honestae	honesta

• comparative: honestior, superlative: honestissimus

Antonyms

• (honorable or honourable): inhonestus

Derived terms

• honestās
• honestē
• honestitūdō

• honestō
• honestum
• inhonestus

Related terms

Related terms

• honestāmentum
• honor
• honōrābilis
• honōrārium
• honōrārius
• honōrātē

• honōrātiō
• honōrātus
• honōrificē
• honōrificentia
• honōrificō

• honōrificus
• honōriger
• honōripeta
• honōrō
• honōrus

Descendants

• English: honest
• French: honnête
• Italian: onesto

• Norman: honnête (Norman)
• Portuguese: honesto
• Spanish: honesto

References

• honestus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• honestus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “honestus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “honestus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere