pudendus

Latin

Etymology

Future passive participle of pudeō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʊˈdɛn.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [puˈdɛn.dus]

Participle

pudendus (feminine pudenda, neuter pudendum); first/second-declension participle

1. which is to be ashamed of
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovidius, Heroides 9.69-70:

     Si te vidisset cultu Busiris in isto,
     huic victor victo nempe pudendus eras.

     Had Busiris beheld you in that attire, the conquered would have been ashamed of his conqueror.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pudendus	pudenda	pudendum		pudendī	pudendae	pudenda
genitive	pudendī	pudendae	pudendī		pudendōrum	pudendārum	pudendōrum
dative	pudendō	pudendae	pudendō		pudendīs
accusative	pudendum	pudendam	pudendum		pudendōs	pudendās	pudenda
ablative	pudendō	pudendā	pudendō		pudendīs
vocative	pudende	pudenda	pudendum		pudendī	pudendae	pudenda

Descendants

• English: pudendum
• Spanish: pudendo

References

• “pudendus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pudendus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pudendus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.