honte

See also: hoňte

Esperanto

Etymology

honto +‎ -e

Adverb

honte

1. shamefully
2. ashamedly

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French honte, from Old French hunte (“dishonour”), from Early Medieval Latin haunta, borrowed from Frankish *haunitha (“disdain, scorn, ridicule”), from Proto-Germanic *hauniþō (“humiliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw- (“to be evil, make evil”).

Cognate with Old High German hōnida (“dishonour”), Middle Dutch hoonde (“dishonour”), Old English hīenþ, hīenþu (“humiliation”). More at hean.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ̃t/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /hɔ̃t/, [hɔ̃n]
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃t

Noun

honte f (plural hontes)

1. shame (feeling)
2. shame (something shameful)

Derived terms

• avoir honte
• avoir toute honte bue
• faire honte
• honte à toi
• honte à vous
• honteux
• la honte
• mauvaise honte

 

Further reading

• “honte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Alternative forms

• hunte, hounte

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin haunta, borrowed from Frankish *haunitha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhuntə/

Noun

honte f (oblique plural hontes, nominative singular honte, nominative plural hontes)

1. shame (feeling)

Derived terms

• honter

Descendants

• Middle French: honte
  • French: honte
• → Middle English: hountee, honteye

Borrowings:

• → Italian: unta, onta
• → Old Catalan: onta
  • Catalan: honta, onta
• → Old Occitan: anta, onta, honta
  • Occitan: onta

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*hauniþa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 16: Germanismes: G–R, page 183

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀳𑁄𑀦𑁆𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• होन्ते (Devanagari script)
• হোন্তে (Bengali script)
• හොන‍්තෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဟောန္တေ or ႁေႃၼ္တေ or ႁေႃၼ်တေ (Burmese script)
• โหนฺเต or โหนเต (Thai script)
• ᩉᩮᩣᨶ᩠ᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂຫນ຺ເຕ or ໂຫນເຕ (Lao script)
• ហោន្តេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄦𑄮𑄚𑄴𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

Adjective

honte

1. inflection of hoti (“to be”):
   1. present active participle masculine/neuter locative singular
   2. present active participle masculine accusative plural